First Line

A film about the introduction at the Stalingrad Tractor Plant of the first automatic line, invented by a mechanic I.P. Inochkin. Part I. Shop of the Stalingrad Tractor Plant with working machines. Machine operators manually fix and remove parts, bring in and out a support with a cutter (a unit for attaching and moving tools), transfer the finished product to an auxiliary table. The machine only works during turning with a cutter. Machine tools with automatic cutter feed allow Stakhanovite workers to service several machines at once. They move from one machine to another, fastening and disconnecting parts on several machines at the same time. Factory locksmith Ivan Petrovich Inochkin observes the work of machine operators, with a pencil and a ruler sits over the drawing and drawing of the "mechanical hand". The sample of the "mechanical hand" with the help of tentacles-fingers feeds the workpieces into the machine for processing. Manufacturing of the hub of the supporting roller of the caterpillar sequentially by seven workers on seven machines. Part II. Design office room. Locksmith I.P. Design engineers Bilin and Pozdneva help Inochkin in his calculations. Turner Nesterov, locksmiths Lavrov and Bardanov make units for an automatic line. Mechanical feed of parts along the conveyor, hydraulic mechanisms, rotary prism, automatic feed and retraction of the cutter, ejection of the processed part. Simultaneous operation of three and then five machines. The work of an automatic line of five machines, where all operations for the manufacture of the hub are performed automatically. The line is serviced by one installer. Tractor assembly lines. A convoy of STZ-5-NATI or "Stalinets" trucks (joint development of the Stalingrad Tractor Plant (STZ) and the Scientific Automotive Tractor Institute (NATI, 1931-1946)) is driving through the yard of the plant.

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scriptwriter V.V. Lyubinsky, sound engineer A.S. Prozorov, consultant P.L. Katsnelson, music by V.M. Tarnopolsky