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DetailsOriginal Format: 16mm Colour: Black & White Sound: Silent Duration: 8 mins 43 secs Credits: Organisations: ICI, Imperial Chemical Industries, Billingham Film Unit Genre: Industrial
Subject: women WORKING LIFE
Summary Billingham Film Unit work motion studies of ICI female punch card operators inputting data on the B6020 Hollerith Punch, a mechanical tabulator, illustrating the two-handed versus three-fingered operation. Sequences in slow motion included.
Description
Billingham Film Unit work motion studies of ICI female punch card operators inputting data on the B6020 Hollerith Punch, a mechanical tabulator, illustrating the two-handed versus three-fingered operation. Sequences in slow motion included.
Title: "The Hollerith Punch"
Tile: "Two-Handed versus Three-Fingered Operation"
Close-up of the hands of a woman worker inputting data on the Holerith Punch using the two-handed method. Final sequence is in slow motion.
Overhead...
Billingham Film Unit work motion studies of ICI female punch card operators inputting data on the B6020 Hollerith Punch, a mechanical tabulator, illustrating the two-handed versus three-fingered operation. Sequences in slow motion included.
Title: "The Hollerith Punch"
Tile: "Two-Handed versus Three-Fingered Operation"
Close-up of the hands of a woman worker inputting data on the Holerith Punch using the two-handed method. Final sequence is in slow motion.
Overhead shot of different woman worker using the faster three-fingered method of inputting data. Final sequence is in slow motion.
Closer shot of woman employee using the three-fingered method of input. Final sequence is in slow motion.
Credit: A Billingham Film
Title: The End
Context Frank B. Gilbreth developed work analysis films between 1910 and 1924 showing a number of industrial operations from which the motion study technique was developed.
Herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 – November 17, 1929) was an American statistician and inventor who developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards to rapidly tabulate statistics from millions of pieces of data. He was the founder of the Tabulating Machine Company that later merged to become IBM. Hollerith is widely regarded as the father of modern automatic computation.
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