In "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home," the crew of the USS Enterprise travels back in time to the 1980s to retrieve humpback whales, which are the only beings that can communicate with an alien probe and save Earth from destruction. They face various challenges and comedic situations as they navigate through 1980s San Francisco and attempt to bring the whales back to the future.
In 1960s Baltimore, two rival aluminum salesmen engage in a heated competition with each other. Their rivalry escalates as they resort to scams, seduction, and revenge to outdo one another. Set against the backdrop of a government hearing and a horse racing event, the film explores themes of friendship, adultery, and the challenges of maintaining a successful business.
Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.
Andy Hardy, a teenager in a small town in America, gets infatuated with his teacher and experiences confusion and despair as he navigates through his teenage crush. Along the way, he also deals with family relationships, courtroom drama, con men, and a marriage proposal.
The narrator, "Barjo" (nutcase, crap artist), is an obsessive simpleton, given to filling his notebook with verbatim dialog, observed trivia, and oddball speculation on human behavior and the end of the world. When his house burns, he moves in with his twin sister, Fanfan -- an impulsive, quixotic egoist -- and her husband, Charles, the Aluminum King. Charles becomes the focus of the film, as his wife and brother-in-law bewilder him.
After losing everything in the stock market crash, a man discovers a mysterious watch that allows him to turn back the clock. He uses this newfound power to change his past and try to fix the mistakes he made. However, he soon realizes that altering the past has consequences he never anticipated.
Flush riveting is a way of connecting two pieces of sheet metal together, using rivets whose heads do not protrude above the surface of the metal. In aircraft construction, a flush rivet reduces drag, thus increasing aircraft performance. This World War II-era Walt Disney industrial-training film teaches four methods of flush-riveting aircraft aluminum sheet metal: the Countersink method, the Double Dimple method, the Pre-Dimple method, and the Combination Pre-Dimple and Countersink method. The choice of method to use is based upon the thicknesses of the top and bottom metal sheets.
Rey's first feature film begins as a stylish quasi-verité documentary about everyday life in a modest French ski resort. Gradually the film's attention shifts and discovers the dominant presence of the aluminum industry in the area steadily reshaping the region and threatening the resort itself. Shot on grainy 16mm treated with extreme photochemical techniques, the fable about industry and capitalism is an exploration of landscape as a hidden set of signifiers of power. - Harvard Film Archive
The girls get jobs selling aluminum cookware door to door.
The Aluminum Fowl is a rap music-themed independent short film that tells the story of an aluminum fowl's journey through the world of rap music. This unique film showcases the struggles and triumphs of the fowl as it tries to find its voice in the competitive rap scene. With its distinctive take on the genre, The Aluminum Fowl offers an insightful and entertaining look into the world of rap music.
The story of the Echo communications satellite program, developed by Bell Laboratories, that eventually resulted in telephone calls being able to be made through satellites.
The Age Of Aluminium is a thought-provoking documentary that delves into the wide-ranging impact and controversies surrounding the use of aluminium. From its role in the production of everyday items to its potential health risks and environmental implications, this film uncovers the hidden aspects of this widely used metal. With a focus on issues such as toxicity, Alzheimer's disease, and the industry's impact on the environment, The Age Of Aluminium sheds light on the dirty little secrets of this versatile material.
This short film presented by the Reynolds Metals Company details how aluminum is manufactured and illustrates the seemingly endless uses of this versatile product.
This video provides basic instruction in how to work with sheet metal for the purpose of building a metal kit aircraft. An experienced instructor covers the terminology, tools, and techniques required to build a kitplane. You can learn those sheet metal skills at your own pace, including topics such as aluminum basics, fasteners, layout and assembly, tools, drilling, dimpling, countersinking, deburring, riveting, and many others.
Orissa, India - where tribal people fight with their bows and arrows against multinational mining moguls from London. The filmmaker, aided by two endearing, bumbling local guides, searches for answers amongst conflicting allegations, as the truth becomes more and more elusive. A humorous film about a serious subject.
A shocking peak into the world of high stakes monster combat. Shocking Truth features a visit to Dino Kang Jr's Cave, the rise and fall of Silver Potato, Kaiju epic The Swarm, and much more.
After winning a qualifying trial for a big speed-boat race in Santa Monica, California, Joe Dunn is offered a bribe, by gamblers, not to take part in the race and is so incensed that he starts a fight which lands him in jail. The girl he loves, Peggy McNeil, takes his place, but crashes into a buoy and is seriously injured---and Joe goes to desperate lengths to raise money for the services of a famous surgeon.
Documentary short film depicting the creation of aluminum metal, from its mining as bauxite and transformation into sheet metal to its fashioning into the materials of war, in particular military aircraft.
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