Ralph Steiner – Mechanical Principles (1931)

Quote:
“The film presents a deceptively ‘open’ series of images of gears and pistons that transfer movement from vertical to rotary directions. Musical in its repetitive visual form, it now seems akin to Charles Sheeler’s paintings and photographs of railroad locomotive gears and wheels, a tribute to the machine age.” – Robert A. Haller

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Close up we see pistons move up and down or side to side. Pendulums sway, the small parts of machinery move. Gears drive larger wheels. Gears within gears spin. Shafts turn some mechanism that is out of sight. Screws revolve and move other gears; a bit rotates. More subtle mechanisms move other mechanical parts for unknown purposes. Weights rise and fall. The movements, underscored by sound, are rhythmic. Circles, squares, rods, and teeth are in constant and sometimes asymmetrical motion. These human-made mechanical bits seem benign and reassuring.

Ralph Steiner - 1931 - Mechanical Principles [576p].mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	10 min 20 s
Size: 	215 MiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	776x576 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	2 650 kb/s
BPP: 	0.247
Audio
#1:  	2.0ch AC-3 @ 256 kb/s

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