“Men & Lines” voyeuristically spies on several linemen. Choppily shot from the muddled perspective of jumbled branches, the workers tend to the telephone line primarily from their respective cherry pickers. This sequence plays for nearly two thirds of the runtime, until the camera’s action yields to a patient pan communicating the workers’ proximity. Abruptly the film shifts to black and white, and this latter portion monochromatically plays out in pans between workers at work.
Men & Lines
Men & Lines
Video:
Collection:
Elam Subseries I: Films
Date:
1973
Original Format:
8mm
Color:
color and B&W
Sound:
Silent
Duration:
0h 7m 7s
Abstract:
"Men & Lines" voyeuristically spies on several linemen. Choppily shot from the muddled perspective of jumbled branches, the workers tend to the telephone line primarily from their respective cherry pickers. This sequence plays for nearly two thirds of the runtime, until the camera's action yields to a patient pan communicating the workers' proximity. Abruptly the film shifts to black and white, and this latter portion monochromatically plays out in pans between workers at work.
Genre:
Short
Subject(s):
Source:
http://www.chicagofilmarchives.org/collections/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/7794
Repository:
Chicago Film Archive