Incredible footage! Forgot how labor intensive and how 1-functional this manufacturing assembly line was.
Even better to compare this video to current robotic assembly lines where few workers are seen, and it is almost all machinery doing compound functions.
This is how a car should be built,none of this micron thin steel monocoque crap,spot welded and the rest snap together plastic parts.Motor manufacturers baulk at the idea of building quality cars.A quality car lasts more than five years and can be repaired.The whole idea behind modern cars is for the consumers to have to keep buying new cars.They dont want to build cars that last a lifetime as sales will drop.A good comparison is a disposable lighter versus a Zippo,modern cars are "Disposable"!!
Why can't you idiots making political comments do it in the appropriate forum. This a video aboue AUTO ASSEMBLY! It has nothing to do with politics whatsoever! I don't understand why you morones have to spin EVERYTHING into politics or corporate greed! GET A LIFE! Go occupy a port-a-potty somewhere!
Interesting video, but as far as the men's work ethic behavior; if they know they are being filmed (which I'm sure they did because the cameras were huge back then) then of course they are going to appear "all business" and working diligently.
Big machines, automatic welding rigs, deep curved steel pressings, real men. This was the world that America built and amazed the world with. Incredible.
Now America must do this revolution again in the e-car and solar post petroleum world
The remarkable assembly line films from the early 20th century reveal many things: the use of automation, the dangers: hands working around the massive presses, bending and twisting backs, etc. With regard to human rights, in the US we have our own political prisoners (Magón, Peltier, etc). Our prisons have industries with free labor. But, we don't have people actively struggling to make an egalitarian social order. We keep voting for two corporate parties saying double speak.
Fascinating footage! As for the labor "fray" going on here, let me say that the single worst thing that I can think of that has hurt American industry was the awarding of "Favored Nation Status" to China. They have done nothing to deserve that award. In fact, they have done much to NOT deserve it. Their human rights & religious persecution (Christians) abuses are abysmal & legendary. For this, we allow them to flood our country with cheap junk-- most made by unpaid kids, women & prisoners!
@Hypsan research how George BUsh when he was Ambassador made deals with the Chinese to accept the 1 child policy that they would be rewarded with the Favored Nation status, it's all about politics. The US & british empire used a opium drug war to take over china and bring in communism. The US even put Mao into power. Just like today the phoney Drug war in America is being used to build a communist police state all while the US govt actually ships the drugs in from Afganistan and South America
@wyclef Didn't mean to offend, the comment was partly in jest. However, mind numbing assembly line jobs will be lost to cheaper machines or cheaper labor. We have corporate owned Republican and Democrat legislators that we all voted for to thank. Globalization, NAFTA and other trade agreements passed by these corporate prostitutes cost America it's jobs. The market is now China, India, South America and soon, Africa. Labor is cheaper there so the autos will be built there. Foolish not to.
After watching these people work at these unbelievably boring jobs I'm wondering if losing our industrial jobs to foreign competition may not actually be a good thing. It is amazing what people will do to feed themselves and put a roof over their families heads. It reminds me of the boredom I experienced while pumping gas for a "living" to get through college. Pretty amazing technology though for the day!
@JDGless You really have to think about that? Losing our industry is destroying America. It has been and has been talked about for years. And just an FYI auto workers today make about 80k doing these boring jobs.
@JDGless yeah, it's definitely better that Americans don't have the option to create something of value with their hands. Your opinion is what's wrong with America nowadays. lazy fuck!
@JDGless I would love to have one of those "boring Jobs". Alot fo people like that type of work, America is a nation in collaspe because we have foolishly outsourced are manufacturing and now all we have is 22% real unemployment, no manufacturing and nothing but a bunch of service jobs of people mowing each others grass, flipping burgers, and doing each others taxes and a bunch of pointless wars.
it's a wonder they could make any profit with that huge investment in equpiment, but I guess when you make the only car in the country that helps. Old junky put put cars. Today things are more focused on quality verus quanity.
@CeletenteFan223 in 100 years the ONLY cars you'll see still running are the ones built before 1970. the crap they build now is all plastic and designed around planned obsolescence. nice try though. ":)
@liljgoneman most the cars from the 60's are piles of rust, yeah they lasted real good. I'll take the plastic car that doesn't rust, gets 30 mpg, looks and performs better and if it only last 20 years that's fine because I wouldn't want to own the same car for longer anyway. If the car manufacturers made cars that lasted 100 years and cost $75k they would already be out of business.
@ModernPlague -- "CEOs" and "Employees" and all other Corporatist Titles are manufactured by Big Gov't -- they would not exist in a free-society. In a Free-society "employee" becomes "self-employed, contractor, or sub-contractor" as there would be no guarantees without a large force-agency. The CEO in a free-society would be a similar position without all the price floors and regulations -- he represents the "owners" who in the long-run are the poor and middle class (in regard to all assets)
we entered a world economy over a decade ago. if someone 10k miles away is capable of working for pennies on the dollar, we need to level the playying field. at the same time, buy low sell high. sweatshop or not, they will get their product.
"Level the playing field" means making poor kids work for pennies so Americans can lose their jobs altogether & CEOs can get even MORE filthy rich? How is that fair, or a level playing field? The jobs should stay where they will pay a living wage, not where people can be exploited just so consumers will "get their product", as if that's all that matters. Corporatism is wrecking this fucking planet.
@ModernPlague the funny part is they're systematically destroying the consumer base that made them rich in the first place. When we all work for 5 dollars a day, who's gonna buy those cars? certainly not the overseas "help".... oh well, fuck em, i hope those piles o' cash are bulletproof.
@ModernPlague yeah it's funny seeing their is no freedom in the USA anyway, the GOP is getting ready to steal the Iowa Cacus from ROn Paul, so we dont choose our leaders and look at all the govt's resistance to OWS and the demonization but when Eygpt and libya prostested they said it was democracy in action and great. ANd then theres the TSA, you cant travel anymore, then look up the new NDAA law, there is abosolutly no freedom in the USA.
@CeletenteFan223 Steal it? LMFAO, he couldn't win an election if he wanted to. I love the videos you Ron Paul freaks are putting out talking about shooting people and armed revolution if he loses Iowa. Worthless traitors.
@malagaent I can tell you watch the corporate media whore TV Pressitute news and believe that Lie that Ron Paul can't win which is a complete LIE propaganda trick. RP wins all the Polls that aren't rigged, ofcourse he can beat Obama. The Media went though 20+ years of RP's history trying to discredit him and all they could find was a racist comment in a Newsletter that RP didn't even write or read. RP got robbed in 2008 and the crook ran GOP and whore media is looking to do it again.
@ModernPlague re "they don't care if Americans can't feed their families!"
Using cheaper labor whether it be in foreign lands or in the US is what is best for the US economy and the families. Read Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations for a good explanation of why if you are interested. The line 'fat cat banksters' sounds good for propaganda but it has no reality or basis in economics as something harmful or evil.
and america can't build consumer products using robot technology in 2011?? WTF. something fishy is going on. AMERICA HAS BEEN IN AN ACTIVE STATE OF DESTRUCTION FOR THE 40 YEARS THANKS TO THE FEDERAL GOVERMENT AND THE WTO AND FREE TRADE. WE HAVE BECOME A NATION OF FATSO BEER DRINKING TV WATCHING IDIOTS WITH BROKEN FAMILIES AND DEBT BEYOND OUR WILDEST DREAMS
@liljgoneman ahhahaha look at you fucking raging cos you know im right no one bought your cars so you bail them out because they are still built the way they where built right here dipshit
@buddyjesus1000 rage?! you over_estimate your importance in this world. I figured its a public service to point out how fuckin stupid you are considering being that stupid is an obvious handicap and prevents you from KNOWING what an absolute fuckin retard you are. you're entirely welcome retard. now, suck a salted peanut outta my asshole. :)
Looks pretty hi-tech for the time and even present. China 2011, does not look that promising! Grow some balls USA...this is how we became a world leader...not BS wars. All warfare at this point is economic. Get off your ass, and do something everyday.
Where are all the UAW workers standing around like the right wing Republican assholes talk about? It looks like they're working damn hard to me . UNION FIRST!
@spudoe fuck you and your unions. A real man gets and keeps a job based on merit, NOT some fat slob takin his cut and and bleeding the industry dry. You fuckin fools are determined to ship ALL blue collar work overseas aren't you? fuckin asshole.
You should haev put tons of video effects on it seeing as how you dubbed crap music over it.
3Deity 3 weeks ago
when skilled Men were skilled Men providing for their families. . . no coachbuilders here. . .
toirmetalshaping 4 weeks ago
Incredible footage! Forgot how labor intensive and how 1-functional this manufacturing assembly line was.
Even better to compare this video to current robotic assembly lines where few workers are seen, and it is almost all machinery doing compound functions.
rrealrose 1 month ago
Hollywood is a place where lies are born and filmed
BrianISGOD1 1 month ago
because of these camera angles and stuff I have noticed the fakeness of war footage in world war 1 and 2
BrianISGOD1 1 month ago
This is how a car should be built,none of this micron thin steel monocoque crap,spot welded and the rest snap together plastic parts.Motor manufacturers baulk at the idea of building quality cars.A quality car lasts more than five years and can be repaired.The whole idea behind modern cars is for the consumers to have to keep buying new cars.They dont want to build cars that last a lifetime as sales will drop.A good comparison is a disposable lighter versus a Zippo,modern cars are "Disposable"!!
silver760 1 month ago
Wow, no one knows what the music in this video is?!?
majormadmax 1 month ago
Why can't you idiots making political comments do it in the appropriate forum. This a video aboue AUTO ASSEMBLY! It has nothing to do with politics whatsoever! I don't understand why you morones have to spin EVERYTHING into politics or corporate greed! GET A LIFE! Go occupy a port-a-potty somewhere!
59BlueBomber 1 month ago 2
This speaks to my soul on levels i didn't imagine possible
russix009 1 month ago
very excellent film superrrrr
selimnogay4441 1 month ago
I assume that being 1936 the video is PD?
malagaent 2 months ago
This music was actually played during mornings shifts at the plant.
mistersmith6000 2 months ago
Very Zen!~
transientdreams 2 months ago
Interesting video, but as far as the men's work ethic behavior; if they know they are being filmed (which I'm sure they did because the cameras were huge back then) then of course they are going to appear "all business" and working diligently.
mcmmindfulfitness 3 months ago
Big machines, automatic welding rigs, deep curved steel pressings, real men. This was the world that America built and amazed the world with. Incredible.
Now America must do this revolution again in the e-car and solar post petroleum world
baconsplace 3 months ago
The remarkable assembly line films from the early 20th century reveal many things: the use of automation, the dangers: hands working around the massive presses, bending and twisting backs, etc. With regard to human rights, in the US we have our own political prisoners (Magón, Peltier, etc). Our prisons have industries with free labor. But, we don't have people actively struggling to make an egalitarian social order. We keep voting for two corporate parties saying double speak.
aguilayserpiente 4 months ago
Fascinating footage! As for the labor "fray" going on here, let me say that the single worst thing that I can think of that has hurt American industry was the awarding of "Favored Nation Status" to China. They have done nothing to deserve that award. In fact, they have done much to NOT deserve it. Their human rights & religious persecution (Christians) abuses are abysmal & legendary. For this, we allow them to flood our country with cheap junk-- most made by unpaid kids, women & prisoners!
Hypsan 4 months ago
@Hypsan research how George BUsh when he was Ambassador made deals with the Chinese to accept the 1 child policy that they would be rewarded with the Favored Nation status, it's all about politics. The US & british empire used a opium drug war to take over china and bring in communism. The US even put Mao into power. Just like today the phoney Drug war in America is being used to build a communist police state all while the US govt actually ships the drugs in from Afganistan and South America
CeletenteFan223 2 months ago
This is important historical footage: it shows union workers actually WORKING!
Its amazing but true!
Cyclops08 4 months ago
@Cyclops08 You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Union (UAW) wasn't recognized untill 1937.
bigstuff52 3 months ago
@Cyclops08 like seeing bigfoot riding a fucking unicorn through the backyard!
liljgoneman 2 months ago
@wyclef Didn't mean to offend, the comment was partly in jest. However, mind numbing assembly line jobs will be lost to cheaper machines or cheaper labor. We have corporate owned Republican and Democrat legislators that we all voted for to thank. Globalization, NAFTA and other trade agreements passed by these corporate prostitutes cost America it's jobs. The market is now China, India, South America and soon, Africa. Labor is cheaper there so the autos will be built there. Foolish not to.
JDGless 5 months ago
After watching these people work at these unbelievably boring jobs I'm wondering if losing our industrial jobs to foreign competition may not actually be a good thing. It is amazing what people will do to feed themselves and put a roof over their families heads. It reminds me of the boredom I experienced while pumping gas for a "living" to get through college. Pretty amazing technology though for the day!
JDGless 5 months ago 2
@JDGless You really have to think about that? Losing our industry is destroying America. It has been and has been talked about for years. And just an FYI auto workers today make about 80k doing these boring jobs.
wyyclef 5 months ago 2
@JDGless yeah, it's definitely better that Americans don't have the option to create something of value with their hands. Your opinion is what's wrong with America nowadays. lazy fuck!
liljgoneman 2 months ago
@JDGless I would love to have one of those "boring Jobs". Alot fo people like that type of work, America is a nation in collaspe because we have foolishly outsourced are manufacturing and now all we have is 22% real unemployment, no manufacturing and nothing but a bunch of service jobs of people mowing each others grass, flipping burgers, and doing each others taxes and a bunch of pointless wars.
CeletenteFan223 2 months ago
it's a wonder they could make any profit with that huge investment in equpiment, but I guess when you make the only car in the country that helps. Old junky put put cars. Today things are more focused on quality verus quanity.
CeletenteFan223 5 months ago
@CeletenteFan223 in 100 years the ONLY cars you'll see still running are the ones built before 1970. the crap they build now is all plastic and designed around planned obsolescence. nice try though. ":)
liljgoneman 2 months ago
@liljgoneman most the cars from the 60's are piles of rust, yeah they lasted real good. I'll take the plastic car that doesn't rust, gets 30 mpg, looks and performs better and if it only last 20 years that's fine because I wouldn't want to own the same car for longer anyway. If the car manufacturers made cars that lasted 100 years and cost $75k they would already be out of business.
CeletenteFan223 2 months ago
CEOs make more money using sweat-shop labor overseas;
they don't care if Americans can't feed their families!
But we're supposed to believe it's Muslims who hate America's freedom & prosperity?
Nah, I think it's the CEOs & bankster fat-cats who hate those things, because it means less money for THEM.
ModernPlague 5 months ago 15
@ModernPlague -- "CEOs" and "Employees" and all other Corporatist Titles are manufactured by Big Gov't -- they would not exist in a free-society. In a Free-society "employee" becomes "self-employed, contractor, or sub-contractor" as there would be no guarantees without a large force-agency. The CEO in a free-society would be a similar position without all the price floors and regulations -- he represents the "owners" who in the long-run are the poor and middle class (in regard to all assets)
OctoBox 5 months ago 2
@ModernPlague
we entered a world economy over a decade ago. if someone 10k miles away is capable of working for pennies on the dollar, we need to level the playying field. at the same time, buy low sell high. sweatshop or not, they will get their product.
luvyouinmouth 3 months ago
@luvyouinmouth
"Level the playing field" means making poor kids work for pennies so Americans can lose their jobs altogether & CEOs can get even MORE filthy rich? How is that fair, or a level playing field? The jobs should stay where they will pay a living wage, not where people can be exploited just so consumers will "get their product", as if that's all that matters. Corporatism is wrecking this fucking planet.
ModernPlague 3 months ago 2
@ModernPlague the funny part is they're systematically destroying the consumer base that made them rich in the first place. When we all work for 5 dollars a day, who's gonna buy those cars? certainly not the overseas "help".... oh well, fuck em, i hope those piles o' cash are bulletproof.
liljgoneman 2 months ago
@ModernPlague yeah it's funny seeing their is no freedom in the USA anyway, the GOP is getting ready to steal the Iowa Cacus from ROn Paul, so we dont choose our leaders and look at all the govt's resistance to OWS and the demonization but when Eygpt and libya prostested they said it was democracy in action and great. ANd then theres the TSA, you cant travel anymore, then look up the new NDAA law, there is abosolutly no freedom in the USA.
CeletenteFan223 2 months ago
@CeletenteFan223 Steal it? LMFAO, he couldn't win an election if he wanted to. I love the videos you Ron Paul freaks are putting out talking about shooting people and armed revolution if he loses Iowa. Worthless traitors.
malagaent 2 months ago
@malagaent I can tell you watch the corporate media whore TV Pressitute news and believe that Lie that Ron Paul can't win which is a complete LIE propaganda trick. RP wins all the Polls that aren't rigged, ofcourse he can beat Obama. The Media went though 20+ years of RP's history trying to discredit him and all they could find was a racist comment in a Newsletter that RP didn't even write or read. RP got robbed in 2008 and the crook ran GOP and whore media is looking to do it again.
CeletenteFan223 2 months ago
@CeletenteFan223 Keep telling yourself that, whatever floats your boat.
malagaent 2 months ago
@ModernPlague re "they don't care if Americans can't feed their families!"
Using cheaper labor whether it be in foreign lands or in the US is what is best for the US economy and the families. Read Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations for a good explanation of why if you are interested. The line 'fat cat banksters' sounds good for propaganda but it has no reality or basis in economics as something harmful or evil.
malagaent 2 months ago
and america can't build consumer products using robot technology in 2011?? WTF. something fishy is going on. AMERICA HAS BEEN IN AN ACTIVE STATE OF DESTRUCTION FOR THE 40 YEARS THANKS TO THE FEDERAL GOVERMENT AND THE WTO AND FREE TRADE. WE HAVE BECOME A NATION OF FATSO BEER DRINKING TV WATCHING IDIOTS WITH BROKEN FAMILIES AND DEBT BEYOND OUR WILDEST DREAMS
erdingtown 5 months ago 8
and american can't build consumer products using robot technology in 2011?? WTF. something fishy is going on.
erdingtown 5 months ago
our mfg techniques should have been kept secret, screw the rest of the world.
now look at us
alansmithee95608 5 months ago
now there r no men at all in there
arisklmt 5 months ago
Wow..
BTW notice how no one is fat? Actually turning wrenches?
3800fiero 6 months ago
@Standard999999 I believe it's from Justin Bieber. It's got to be Justin Bieber. He's everywhere.
blayve32 6 months ago
This is modern footage from the american moter industry
buddyjesus1000 6 months ago
@buddyjesus1000 learn to spell dipshit.
liljgoneman 2 months ago
@liljgoneman ahhahaha look at you fucking raging cos you know im right no one bought your cars so you bail them out because they are still built the way they where built right here dipshit
buddyjesus1000 2 months ago
@buddyjesus1000 rage?! you over_estimate your importance in this world. I figured its a public service to point out how fuckin stupid you are considering being that stupid is an obvious handicap and prevents you from KNOWING what an absolute fuckin retard you are. you're entirely welcome retard. now, suck a salted peanut outta my asshole. :)
liljgoneman 2 months ago
@buddyjesus1000 i see the spelling thing fell on deaf ears. that's too bad. nothing as contemptable as willful ignorance....
liljgoneman 2 months ago
i LIVE IN FLINT AND I HAVE TO SAY IT IS VERY SAD TO SEE ALL ARE HISTORICAL SHOPS GETTING CLOSED AND TORE DOWN 1 BY 1 R,I,P THE OLD FLINT
DALLCHE505 6 months ago
it's a Chevy plant....
caching60098 6 months ago
WIR SIND DIE ROBOTER. √
Hyper1ink 7 months ago
Looks pretty hi-tech for the time and even present. China 2011, does not look that promising! Grow some balls USA...this is how we became a world leader...not BS wars. All warfare at this point is economic. Get off your ass, and do something everyday.
nitrohonkey 7 months ago 4
Looks pretty hi-tech. Even China 2011, does not look that promising!
nitrohonkey 7 months ago
I bet a lot of accidens happened in places like that.
BriDneyn 7 months ago
Please tell what this music is!!!
VAloveGD 7 months ago
How It's Made: Vintage Edition - Now airing tonight 7-8 pm central time!
MuskyCornseed 7 months ago
Working safety doesn't seem to be taken too seriously at that time...
rollinrudi 7 months ago
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rollinrudi 7 months ago
I had no idea it was there was this much technological knowledge back then
LTF85199 7 months ago
If one can imagine this footage in color, its almost as good as a modern assembly line ... wonder what company this is .....
Those days when mechanical engineering was at is glory.
Softmessager 7 months ago
UAW was founded in 1935, so this may or may not predate them.
The UAW rapidly found success in organizing with the sit-down strike — first in a General Motors plant in Atlanta, Georgia in 1936
insanitized1 7 months ago
Reminds me of Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times!
yoshinibble123 7 months ago
Where are all the UAW workers standing around like the right wing Republican assholes talk about? It looks like they're working damn hard to me . UNION FIRST!
spudoe 7 months ago
@spudoe Look at the date, this is back in 1936 before the uaw workers got fat with wages. That has changed!!!
looking2004 7 months ago
@spudoe fuck you and your unions. A real man gets and keeps a job based on merit, NOT some fat slob takin his cut and and bleeding the industry dry. You fuckin fools are determined to ship ALL blue collar work overseas aren't you? fuckin asshole.
liljgoneman 2 months ago
It reminds me of the movie "Metropolis" and the music reminds me of Kraftwerk.
maggieGurlMusic 7 months ago
noobs.
moviecrazeboy14 7 months ago
Amazing. Thanks for posting
n0t5ur3 7 months ago
just sad that nowadays there are maybe 5 people necessary for the whole procedure
Monkeymansondude 7 months ago
@Monkeymansondude Have you ever been to a factory? I can assure you that there are well over 100 people in the assembly process alone.
thrawnis 7 months ago
@thrawnis not in all factorys but its good i hope it stays like that
Monkeymansondude 5 months ago
Simply amazing -_-"
Nono54Fr 7 months ago
All these people are dead :(
clayton7m 7 months ago
This is quality not like today "made in china" :D
monstero111 7 months ago
Amazing to see the early robotics in 1936!
TubaEd06 7 months ago
@TubaEd06 i think they're mechanical machines, not robots, but its still awesome!
r3mo7 7 months ago
yeah whats the music?
MrSweetsprings 7 months ago 17
What's the music?
kogyo55 7 months ago
Amazing both the industrial effort and the cinematography.
Excellent!
LakisMatt 7 months ago 7
this is during the sit down strikes
jdj106 11 months ago