Transistors (1958)
Newmarket, Suffolk. L, S of launching of a guided missile at night. Camera pans as the missile flies up great shot M, S of a scientist in his laboratory. In every scientific field man performs what might once have been termed, miracles. Yet one single development the transistor has made many of these feats M, S of a man in white coat working in the laboratory. C, U shot of seed (crystal) growing machine. M, S of a man placing grown crystal into crystal cutting machine. C, U shot of the crystal wafer being cut. Voiceover explains the newest technology used to cut it ultrasonic drilling. M, S of the man while taking crystal wafer out of machine. C, U shot of the wafer in the man s hand. He cleans it and places it with other wafers. Several C, U shots of wafers cut and uncut. In the next stage, wafers are sorted into separate piles according to their thickness. M, S of a girl sorting the wafers using a very thin water colour paintbrush. She measures them on a little electronic scale and
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