Re: Film of Erie Type 8 resistor manufacture
As far as the dating goes, Fisher's radararchive bio does seem to indicate that he was only at TRE during the war. Since he was a specialist film-maker I suppose it's possible that he was persuaded to go back and make this short at some later stage. But my gut feeling is that it was made in the 40's, not least because the 3-band marking was already in production in the early 50's. I think I've actually got some of those small cardboard boxes with body-tip-ring resistors in them somewhere.
Incidentally I spoke to the IWM this morning and I have to say they've been very helpful. If you can identify films in their collection which might be interesting then they are inclined to digitise them if they can. They were at pains to point out that they can't promise anything - their resources are limited and they can be very busy at times. But at the moment things aren't too bad and they can get films done.
Cheers,
GJ
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