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Mechanix Illustrated No. 2

Mechanix Illustrated No. 2

1939Short⏱️ 10m
DocumentaryShort

Making illuminating gas (neon) from coke; the assembly of a light airplane designed for the civilian pilot; clay-fashioning, and subsequent casting, of figures used in department store window-displays; and the making of cosmetics.

Director
N/A
Writers
N/A
Stars
Dwight Weist
Release Date
January 20, 1939
Language
English
Country
United States
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🎭 Top Cast

Dwight Weist
Dwight Weist
as Self - Narrator

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.37 : 1
Sound
Mono
Production
Fawcett Publications

🏷️ Keywords

year 19391930s20th centurymakeupneon

🎯 Categories

DocumentaryShort

⭐ Featured Review

Nearing the end of Brooklyn Vitaphone Studios
by horn-52008-11-11

"After April 26, 1939, the Ina Genet unit, producing the Mechanix Illustrated series, with Genet directing and writing the series,in association with Fawcett Publications, was the only production set-up retained, after the April shutdown, and still producing shorts at Warners' Brooklyn studio. Sam Sax, the Brooklyn studio head, had already sailed for his Teddington assignment, for Warners, on April 21, 1939. The unit finished ten entries of the series for 1939, and four for 1940 before the plant was closed as a full-tine facility for Warner Brothes short subjects, and the production of sho..."

💡 Did You Know?

Vitaphone Reel #B182.

📖 Synopsis

Making illuminating gas (neon) from coke; the assembly of a light airplane designed for the civilian pilot; clay-fashioning, and subsequent casting, of figures used in department store window-displays; and the making of cosmetics.