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 possible.“ 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