" PLEXIGLASS THE TRANSPARENT PROTECTOR " 1970S ROHM AND HAAS CO. PROMO FILM ACRYLIC GLASS XD80555
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“Plexiglass: The Transparent Protector” (c.1970s) is a color, promotional film presented by Rohm and Haas praising the benefits of plexiglass. The film is composed of footage showing various examples of plexiglass in day to day life and its benefits from minimizing damages to school properties to protecting cops and bank tellers from gunmen while on the job. Rohm & Haas AG was a German chemical company credited with inventing plexiglass in 1933. After World War I the company was given more funds to look into plastics as a possible life saving alternative to glass.
NICU unit of hospital, premature baby in plexiglass incubator box (0:10). Opening credits (0:36). Group of young boys play pick up game of baseball on school field, ball flies through window and breaks it; montage clips of other scenarios where broken glass common (0:45). View of kids playing on jungle gym during recess (1:18). Hand broom used to sweep up shards of clear broken glass (1:35). Backs of two window repair men as they replace window panes along exterior of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Junior High School building (1:46). Contractor measures sheet of plexiglass on sawhorse table before cutting it with circular saw (1:57). Repairmen working on Franklin Delano Roosevelt Junior High School install plexiglass where window panes used to be (2:18). Examples of different schools across United States that replaced glass windows with plexiglass - Washington and Lee High School, Virginia (2:32). Light shining through row of windows bounces off of desk tables in classroom at elementary school in Indianapolis (2:45). Interior hallway of high school in Nevada, wall of floor to ceiling plexiglass windows (2:48). Exterior parking lot of Kroger store, Chicago (2:51). Narcotics Institute of New York (3:01). Broken window panes of tall industrial warehouse building (3:10). Minnesota Twins player Harmon Killebrew hitting plexiglass sheet with bat (3:27). Two police officers get into 1970s red Ford Philadelphia police car, green East Orange, NJ Police training vehicle with plexiglass (3:44). Philadelphia Fire Department (PFD) leaves fire station, views of tiller driver in plexiglass box (4:24). Branch of Aetna Federal Savings bank, tellers protected by plexiglass wall (4:51). Two men fire 38 caliber pistols in close range at plexiglass, observe damage (5:38). Cashier sits behind plexiglass barrier (6:09). Suburban street, family homes and white picket fences (6:18). Young girl on red tricycle cycles around front lawn, bike falls over and breaks back door (6:27). Baby pink 1970s bathroom, plexiglass panels used on shower (6:59). Man in white hardhat conducts falling ball test to exemplify plexiglass breakage resistance in controlled lab setting (7:11). Examples of plexiglass used at shopping malls across country: Echelon New Jersey; Penneys Las Vegas, Nevada; malls in Houston and El Paso, Texas - skylight allows for indoor, outdoor atmosphere (7:36). Young women in bikinis hang out around motel’s all-season pool (8:05). "Man and his World" at Expo 67 site Montreal, Quebec (8:23). Employee in white jacket shows customer in suit tint variations of plexiglass at showroom (8:49). Various plexiglass samples in field to test sun exposure, close-up hand holding beige piece of plexiglass that has retained color and shine (9:03). Dome skylights made from plexiglass: rooftop of building dotted with skylights, view of ceiling from building interior showing how feature affects interior lighting; diffused light illuminates hallway of high school (9:32). Camera pans up from interior of building to reveal dome roof made of solar control plexiglass (10:04). Plexiglass lines ice hockey arena, players push up close to glass while puck is in play (10:13). Phillies Veteran Stadium, Philadelphia - pitcher warms up in plexiglass-lined bullpen (10:26). United Airlines Boeing 747-122 on tarmac (10:39). Bell H-13 Sioux helicopter with plexi hemispheres (10:49). Closing words, montage quick snippets of clips from film (11:02).
Plexiglas is a form of PMMA or poly(methyl methacrylate), the synthetic polymer derived from methyl methacrylate. It is a transparent thermoplastic. PMMA is also known as acrylic, acrylic glass, as well as by various trade names. It is used as a lightweight or shatter-resistant alternative to glass or as a casting resin, in inks and coatings, and for many other purposes.
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Plexiglas (acrylic) gets a lot of competition from polycarbonate (Lexan, Makrolon) nowadays. Tougher and less brittle.
Oh yes, I'm sure it looked great when it was new, but if those windows are still there, I'll wager they are yellowed, cloudy, and scratched/scuffed to hell... unlike the optical glass windows which have been there for centuries. This 1960s techno-optimism is fascinating to see, though. If these promotional films were to be believed, we would be living the dream in buildings constructed out of aerated concrete, lead paint, asbestos and Plexiglas/perspex!
1:45 Flashback to me early '80s. Wow. Yeah we used plexi in the windows that opened because the kids always slammed and broke them. Of course they carved them up pretty quick.
FunFact: The baby in the beginning (Thomas Hunsaker) was born July 20, 1972 and grew up to be a germaphobe.
So this film would have been made in 1973.
Starting about 3:44 those are Philadelphia red police cars. When the show "American Dreams" was made some years ago, set in Philly in the mid '60s, they used metallic bronze for the police cars since they felt red would look too much like fire chief cars. Conversely, Toody and Muldoon's cruiser in Car 54 Where Are You in the early '60s was red for TV where the real NYPD cars were green, that show being black-and-white.
Perfect for a pandemic!
Interesting.
💯👍🙂!
Disney must have been inspired by Man and His World for their later globe-shaped attraction at Epcot Center
10:20 Remembering Happy Gilmore, the hockey stadium didn't use Plexiglass. Gilmore broke it:)
Where was the Ring Doorbell Camera? 😮
Good example of marketing something with all these stated qualities that haven't factually been verified with the test of time and of course we all know what clear headlight lens looks like after some time. I wonder what the over all cost is of replacing it after it turns foggy? "They're" still doing it, for example selling a flashlight that's guaranteed for a life time when everyone knows that flashlight hasn't been around a life time yet to verify that claim.
Fortunately for all of us, accelerated life testing is legitimate science.
They are talking the lifetime of the flashlight, not a human lifetime. That’s the marketing genius of it,as each flashlight has a different lifetime. Some last years, others last weeks. So it’s guaranteed for as long as the flashlight works. (It’s lifetime).
*40 million* dollars in broken glass, just in public schools, in a single year, in the 70's (50ish years ago), seems...wrong.
Summerland Leisure Centre. Douglas, Isle of Man. 2 August 1973.
Fire spread through the Summerland leisure centre in Douglas on the Isle of Man during the night. 50 people were killed and 80 seriously injured. The scale of the fire has been compared to those seen during the Blitz. An example of Modernist architecture incorporating advanced controlled internal climate, built with novel construction techniques using new plastic materials. The street frontage and part of the roof was clad in Oroglas, a transparent acrylic glass sheeting
Polymethyl methacrylate was discovered in the early 1930s by British chemists Rowland Hill and John Crawford at Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) in the United Kingdom. Trademark Perspex
This is a cut & paste from Wikipedia.
40 million or 1.05 a child for glass breakage in the 70's. Probably protests and riots. Plexi 70 for that Trans Parent Feeling . Oofta.
not scratch proof