Reel

Bonus Buckets

Bonus Buckets
Clip: 458375_1_1
Year Shot: 1955 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: Color
Tape Master:
Original Film: WPA 1542
HD: N/A
Location: Various Construction Sites
Timecode: -

This industrial film from Clark construction equipment centers around the Michigan 175, a model tractor shovel. The setting is mostly gravel quarries on nice, sunny days as the 175 and dump trucks collaborate on a typical , 2,00 yard clearing day..... CU of a swing loader gathering dirt..... CU of a crawler loader's unique treads rolling in mud..... LS of the 175 zipping along a windy gravel pit road; high angle MS, shot from atop the crawler loader, the 175 passing the slow going crawler.... low angle wide LS of the 175 on top of a huge overburden pile on a sunny day (deep blue sky, wispy clouds, excellent shot).... tight LS of the 175 being filled with gas (includes CU of gas meter).... CU of a chalkboard as a man writes economic equations relating cost expenditures, savings and profits of owning a 175.... numerous LS's of daily quarry operations.