Mechanical Principles

1930 Documentary Directed by Ralph Steiner

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About Mechanical Principles

Close-ups show machine parts in motion: pistons, pendulums, gears driving gears, shafts, screws, and weights. Ralph Steiner directed the experimental short. No story is attached to the parts.

Cast & crew

More about Mechanical Principles

No running time, company, or music credit is on the Wikidata record. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.

Themes

  • Parts in motion
  • No plot around the machines
  • gears
  • pistons
  • Ralph Steiner
  • 1930

Look

Steiner frames the parts close, so the gears fill the picture.

Preservation

A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.

Notes

  • The English Wikipedia calls it visual study of mechanical ideas.
  • No person appears in the catalog cast.
  • The Commons file is Mechanical Principles (1930).

Scenes

  • A gear turns a larger wheel, and the shot stays on the teeth.

Also available

  • Wikimedia Commons (Mechanical Principles)