Fabulous old Philips footage. I'm currently restoring a 1929 Philips Model 2510 which is featured in this film, as are its E442, E415 and C443 valves! There is even footage of the making of the Philips "Sevenette" speaker that goes with it. I'm restoring that too! Thank you for posting this video.
Philite == bakelite. I'm from a typical "Philips family"; my maternal grandfather and uncles all worked for the company in Eindhoven so this a real nostalgic treat for me!
Do you have photos of your parents working in Philips? Also that be good add to a video, and share it for all new generations. I have one radio Philips BX505, my dad buy it in 1951 here in Tegucigalpa at "Alix E Garnier" store, 100% functionally. Greetings from HN - +504 72155034 wtsp
I had one of their weirder ones until about a year or so ago. A 30s Bakelite cabinet 3 band radio with all the components mounted on the bottom and sides of the cabinet!
This was high tech work back in the day... like working in semiconductor fabrication today. The people who busted their asses to keep food on the table during the 1930s were hardcore no-nonsense bad asses who would have eaten the current generations for lunch. They were some amazing people, if you took the time to talk to them. I miss the ones I had the opportunity to know. God forbid we ever see times like this again, as people without their modern conveniences would be throwing themselves in front of trains, off buildings and into the ocean.
Beautiful X-ray tubes !!! I remember my times at Siemens at the glasshop , the guys there where the only chosen which where allowed to drink beer at work. (We made big vacuum-tubes for radio-stations , 50kw emitting power)
Radio voor iedereen . ALLO ALLO vertelt de Nederlandse omroep draaglooze ! Onze golf is 1010 meter. Hallo, Hallo ! Mercury Kenotron rectifier zendt blauw, onaardbaar licht uit . Krachtige vacuümbuizen sturen een programma in de Nederlandse Taal naar de lucht van 1930 . :)))
I worked at these factories in the 1930's it was a truly magical time full of intrigue and political interference. Worked mostly on the spot welding of valves and coating the circuits in chemicals. There were a great many employees living double lives at the time. Romance was the card of the day especially in the broom closets!!
Vacuum tubes (valves) this documentary showing Phillips manufacturing in the earlier era of tubes its incredible and reminds us of how complicated it was to manufacture. I wonder what one of the factory workers were paid and what the retail on one of those tubes were? You can see why transistors and integrated circuits were so rapidly adapted and how it lowered the price of electronics. Tube TV sets were around $300 in 1950s money, and today they're less in today's inflated currencies. (How much in bitcoins) Now audiophiles and musicians want to tube equipment so they've inflated the price of used tubes beyond belief.
Back when industry was strong, people worked hard in those days, bring back the 12 hour shifts, most of these workers walked to work did a 12 hour shift and walked home, bathed in a tin in front of the coal fire. These are the days people hark back to whilst watching this on their ultra modern phones and tablets all made in China, where they work much shorter hours and have too much time on their hands to talk about the good old day's. Life was over when you were 50, you paid cash to see the Dr or suffered in silence, you either worked or starved, and if you lost a finger at work you got a few quid and you were replaced, then you had to find a job where having a missing finger wasnt a problem. Wages were low and life was hard lol
A privilege to witness such skilful master-craftsmen, technicians, assemblers. If their products are long-gone, at least they're hopefully immortalised in this video & similar, and the ongoing reputation of the company. When Germany invaded Eindhoven they struck gold
Amazing what an amount of effort went into those products... nowadays it's just a matter of dumping a large pile a cash into a fully automated factory and let it assemble the products all by itself. Even lighting isn't needed and is only turned on when people need to enter the factory to service the robots.
Kurt Vonnegut wrote his first novel "Player Piano", *in 1952*, about just such a dystopian future as you describe ( he worked for GE at the time). The results were pretty grim. We're not quite to that point yet, but it's not looking good for us ordinary working class people.
@@goodun2974 Well, I'm one of those techs who services the robots, so it's fine by me. But the big winners are those who have the fancy master degrees to design those robots.
@@QoraxAudio , when nobody works, nobody has money to buy what the robots produce, unless everybody gets a UBI sufficient to live on. In "Player Piano" an entire factory was run by one man who programmed and repaired the machines, and a cat. The cat's job was to prevent mice from chewing on wiring or nesting in the machinery. The only other people with jobs were the Reclamation and Recycling Corps, the "Reeks and Wrecks", mostly ex-cons who picked up trash and patched potholes.
¡Gloria eterna! a todos, absolutamente todos esos hombres y mujeres que por sus manos creadoras pasaron esas maravillas de la ingenieria. A ellos, mi inmensa gratitud y como tributo, mi entrega apasionada al rescate y restauración de todo ejemplar que a mis manos llegan.
This video demonstrates why I hate doing the same thing over and over; you're doing a machine's job even though it hasn't been invented yet. My employers hate my attitude because they're afraid my coworkers will see the truth of it too.
@@ronkremer7501 it really does look like the Fritz lang movie used in Freddie Mercurys "Love Kills" video!! very much the frenetic visual style of the Fritz Lang German classics like Nostferatu ua-cam.com/video/PEUcTFAYaTo/v-deo.html
Yes, they were hard working people, but what makes you think that any of them died of industrial illnesses? I have never heard of such a problem among workers in electronics.
Employs a lot of people, different from today that no longer employs that amount of worker *emprega muita gente, diferente de hoje que não emprega mais essa quantidade de trabalhador*
Phillips patented pentode tube technology came out in the late 1930's but the EL34 and it's baby brother the EL84 weren't actually developed until the 1950's.
The factories got occupied by the Germans. The Allied forces bombed the factories for that reason, multiple times. On 6 December 1942 a bombardment took out a large part of the city, killed many people and caused a lot of damage. But the factories were repaired and most of the buildings that this little movie shows, are still there to this day. There's nothing left of Phillips though; the buildings are all used for other purposes now.
Qin Heuang -- Yes. Young apprentices learning a good trade, or just kids helping put food on the family table? Europe being productive in the 1930s, making bongs.
@@schmeckelgruben776 , This was during the depression. I don't know if that many children were working in those factories prior to the financial crash in 1929 but by 1931 families probably had no choice but to put their kids to work in any job they could find.
Fabulous old Philips footage. I'm currently restoring a 1929 Philips Model 2510 which is featured in this film, as are its E442, E415 and C443 valves! There is even footage of the making of the Philips "Sevenette" speaker that goes with it. I'm restoring that too! Thank you for posting this video.
Philite == bakelite.
I'm from a typical "Philips family"; my maternal grandfather and uncles all worked for the company in Eindhoven so this a real nostalgic treat for me!
Do you have photos of your parents working in Philips?
Also that be good add to a video, and share it for all new generations. I have one radio Philips BX505, my dad buy it in 1951 here in Tegucigalpa at "Alix E Garnier" store, 100% functionally.
Greetings from HN - +504 72155034 wtsp
The Philips logo looked very modern for the time. They always made neat looking radios. They extensively used Bakelite instead of wood.
I had one of their weirder ones until about a year or so ago. A 30s Bakelite cabinet 3 band radio with all the components mounted on the bottom and sides of the cabinet!
one of the best electronics manufacturers in the world with historical appliances.
And to think, many countries today aren't even nearly at this level of industrialization yet.
Western civilization.... oops did I just say that.
And they never will be.
Mine for example (Uruguay)
Brasil
Freakin blacks in africa want to live in sand huts for eternity it seems
Tengo en mis manos una radio Philips de mesa a tubos de 1964 una maravilla. funciona perfectamente y lo amo porque es parte de la historia.
a true definition of "hard working people"
اضاءت الدنيا من افواه وايادي العمال البسطاء
Wtf???
Who downvote??👎👎
😊😊some of the workers is still alive!!i guess😯😯
29 so far!!
Long live philips😨
So many scenes from this film look reminiscent of Fritz Lang's Metropolis.
Both my parents worked at the Philips phonographic industries in Holland when I was manifactured. I have a Philips logo on my forehead :-)
🤣🤣🤣
That's so cool! Amazing work they did as those tubes will be forever World renowned
Why does this remind me of the movie "Modern Times"?
None of your business bozo
This was high tech work back in the day... like working in semiconductor fabrication today.
The people who busted their asses to keep food on the table during the 1930s were hardcore no-nonsense bad asses who would have eaten the current generations for lunch. They were some amazing people, if you took the time to talk to them. I miss the ones I had the opportunity to know.
God forbid we ever see times like this again, as people without their modern conveniences would be throwing themselves in front of trains, off buildings and into the ocean.
Cada cosa tiene su tiempo. La tecnologia avanza de a pocos😮😮😮😮
Beautiful X-ray tubes !!! I remember my times at Siemens at the glasshop , the guys there where the only chosen which where allowed to drink beer at work. (We made big vacuum-tubes for radio-stations , 50kw emitting power)
Radio voor iedereen . ALLO ALLO vertelt de Nederlandse omroep draaglooze ! Onze golf is 1010 meter. Hallo, Hallo ! Mercury Kenotron rectifier zendt blauw, onaardbaar licht uit . Krachtige vacuümbuizen sturen een programma in de Nederlandse Taal naar de lucht van 1930 . :)))
the music gives it such a mad-house feel, like... everyone that's working there should be in prison or in and asylum
It's all a bad dream, or they're actually dead.
I worked at these factories in the 1930's it was a truly magical time full of intrigue and political interference. Worked mostly on the spot welding of valves and coating the circuits in chemicals. There were a great many employees living double lives at the time. Romance was the card of the day especially in the broom closets!!
I appreciate the work you did to provide us with modern conveniences.
@@dougfisher1813 You are welcome son
Who are the real geniuses ?? The people who designed, engineered, and built the machines that produced the products !! That's who !!!
No it's you, the bozo
Vacuum tubes (valves) this documentary showing Phillips manufacturing in the earlier era of tubes its incredible and reminds us of how complicated it was to manufacture. I wonder what one of the factory workers were paid and what the retail on one of those tubes were? You can see why transistors and integrated circuits were so rapidly adapted and how it lowered the price of electronics. Tube TV sets were around $300 in 1950s money, and today they're less in today's inflated currencies.
(How much in bitcoins) Now audiophiles and musicians want to tube equipment so they've inflated the price of used tubes beyond belief.
Only 12 employees lost fingers, hands or eyes that day.
And everyone of them had more skill in their little finger than you have in your frightened brain
Back when industry was strong, people worked hard in those days, bring back the 12 hour shifts, most of these workers walked to work did a 12 hour shift and walked home, bathed in a tin in front of the coal fire.
These are the days people hark back to whilst watching this on their ultra modern phones and tablets all made in China, where they work much shorter hours and have too much time on their hands to talk about the good old day's.
Life was over when you were 50, you paid cash to see the Dr or suffered in silence, you either worked or starved, and if you lost a finger at work you got a few quid and you were replaced, then you had to find a job where having a missing finger wasnt a problem.
Wages were low and life was hard lol
The unions were strong then.
No child labor laws.
A privilege to witness such skilful master-craftsmen, technicians, assemblers. If their products are long-gone, at least they're hopefully immortalised in this video & similar, and the ongoing reputation of the company. When Germany invaded Eindhoven they struck gold
11:30 Dam I thought it was a balloon to the right.. but its was not.
He had been doing that for a dam long while for that to be so big, holy shit.
Wonderful ! Very interesting ! Especially own production of radio tubes !
philips made nearly any and every electronic component, many of their own unique design/style, and many electrical ones
still got '47 BX376A bakelite tube phillips radio
Seems Philips were always fond of a bit of Avant Garde. ;)
Double wow! Thanks for share so great documentary!
I saw this playing in the top floor of the Rijksmuseum, Holland.
So most of the ground work in electronics is done by Philips. Very interesting.
"Fragile" labels, then sped up film of flinging them onto trains. Ah, industrial film humor.
Amazing what an amount of effort went into those products... nowadays it's just a matter of dumping a large pile a cash into a fully automated factory and let it assemble the products all by itself.
Even lighting isn't needed and is only turned on when people need to enter the factory to service the robots.
Kurt Vonnegut wrote his first novel "Player Piano", *in 1952*, about just such a dystopian future as you describe ( he worked for GE at the time). The results were pretty grim. We're not quite to that point yet, but it's not looking good for us ordinary working class people.
@@goodun2974 Well, I'm one of those techs who services the robots, so it's fine by me.
But the big winners are those who have the fancy master degrees to design those robots.
@@QoraxAudio , when nobody works, nobody has money to buy what the robots produce, unless everybody gets a UBI sufficient to live on. In "Player Piano" an entire factory was run by one man who programmed and repaired the machines, and a cat. The cat's job was to prevent mice from chewing on wiring or nesting in the machinery. The only other people with jobs were the Reclamation and Recycling Corps, the "Reeks and Wrecks", mostly ex-cons who picked up trash and patched potholes.
@@goodun2974 Sounds a bit like a dystopian proposition from Black Mirror.
Wish there was more info displayed what they were making really amazing how they made those parts
¡Gloria eterna! a todos, absolutamente todos esos hombres y mujeres que por sus manos creadoras pasaron esas maravillas de la ingenieria.
A ellos, mi inmensa gratitud y como tributo, mi entrega apasionada al rescate y restauración de todo ejemplar que a mis manos llegan.
This video demonstrates why I hate doing the same thing over and over; you're doing a machine's job even though it hasn't been invented yet.
My employers hate my attitude because they're afraid my coworkers will see the truth of it too.
There was a time when Philips products were manufactured only in Holland.
GREAT video Thank you for posting
It seems ancient...but the technology then was on a different mind set...sort of,but the skills of the workers would outshine those of today
Обалденно!!! Приспособа для винтов вообще ништяк!
Fascinating, thanks
Amazing. Thank you.
The first half of this was what... making glass bongs? Seriously, can you imagine going to a factory job wearing a business suit?
Years ago I visit this place in Eidhoven ( RAF-4) to last development deflection coil for flat screen tube . Nice place and good memories 😃.
Very interesting, that an invent can make such a progress in history.
19:48 Their latest electronic Curly Howard impersonation circuitry.
Like a scene directly from the movie 1984
No wonder a radio costed an arm and a leg in that time.
Looks like a Fritz Lang production, lol...
It comes from Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens and dates from 1931
@@ronkremer7501 it really does look like the Fritz lang movie used in Freddie Mercurys "Love Kills" video!! very much the frenetic visual style of the Fritz Lang German classics like Nostferatu ua-cam.com/video/PEUcTFAYaTo/v-deo.html
Glass blowing while wearing coat and tie
Magic movie ! The age of RADIO.
100%"all employees dies because of lung cancer or related health problems in the middle age .
Really hardworking people .
Yes, they were hard working people, but what makes you think that any of them died of industrial illnesses? I have never heard of such a problem among workers in electronics.
Employs a lot of people, different from today that no longer employs that amount of worker
*emprega muita gente, diferente de hoje que não emprega mais essa quantidade de trabalhador*
Unless im mistaken this is the home of the el34 power tube i have used in my marshall guitar amps i read i came out of dutch labs in the late 30s
Phillips patented pentode tube technology came out in the late 1930's but the EL34 and it's baby brother the EL84 weren't actually developed until the 1950's.
When a man could still work, still would
They used to blow the bulbs with mouth?😲
Love the B roll on this. Pegging meters and the like.
The ma at the 12:00 point of the chronometer puts me in mind of Dizzy Gillespie
GREAT FACTORY ❤ PHILIPS ❤❤❤❤❤
Transmitting tubes for radio broad casting.
Каторжный труд. Но да, вещи сделанные руками.
Wooow.
Old old schol.
It was so much sadder because it was in black and white.
The golden years of electronics, before Television.
Nowadays, many of activities process and work are done by robots and machineries, getting better technology and precision.
Is this music original to the film? It's terrible. Interesting video otherwise,
Product resembles Aliens flying saucers?
A.I. eggs...
At first I thought I was watching Metropolis.😅
5:27 Hej, my name is Hans Van Der Tipp and my daily job is to top off delivery carts ;-P
You had one job.
Holy sh!t philips was really ahead of it's time.
Respect to those peoples who worked like enslavery robots for that company,pfffff.
Enslaved robots! these people had good paying jobs and lived in rich highly developed European Country.
What about the soundtrack?
Imagine what it was like to live in a time before the world was in color, nothing was in sharp focus, and sound quality was very limited.
People walked incredibly fast and almost penguin like, even teleporting at times. A surreal time to live for sure!
@@krashd Must have been that COCAine COLA.
THANK YOU!
interesting they were still blowing and hand shaping glass in the 1930s
Tengo radios atuvos nuca pense que veria este proseso grasias diosito del sielo amen de chile linares
Is this the factory that was bombed by the British in the early '40s after the Nazis had invaded and used it for radar research?
gotta love the bad fooley on this ; )
Music from the funny farm ! Depressing !
Turn the volume down and play some techno music.
it's really an insane asylum
Como llegue aquí?
Good video
Pioneiros da eletrônica.
Wonderful!
Who else has the vacancy killed - Pumping up light bulbs all day? (Someone already has cheeks like balls) ...
Glass blower eh? 🤣 ua-cam.com/video/1xOPgQpiQbk/v-deo.html
love it
Ok, what the heck is going on @19:00?!?
Interesante esa epoca
@11:23... Allies discover Hitler sucking on pipes renouncing he was ever in the War.
19:31 wobbel generator,Mooie film,Ons Eindhovens trots
Who knows what they did when war broke out...
The factories got occupied by the Germans. The Allied forces bombed the factories for that reason, multiple times. On 6 December 1942 a bombardment took out a large part of the city, killed many people and caused a lot of damage. But the factories were repaired and most of the buildings that this little movie shows, are still there to this day. There's nothing left of Phillips though; the buildings are all used for other purposes now.
Made in holland philips
China is the country that will win the competition for best spinning pseaker my dad said so back in 02
look at all the asbestos at 1:25 dam that poor kid !!!
no child labor laws
What makes you think that is asbestos? Looks more like putting together ingredients to make bakelite..
@@blitzroehre1807 Asbestos was sometimes indeed used as a filler in manufacturing bakelite .
My god i'm glad that film is over.
what the 2016 means at 34：17 ？
A part number or box size ?
speaker was 2016, radio casaphone 2017, from 1931 year
a lot of blowing going on there
Hig tecnology
FASTAHHhhrrrr!!! Or No Soup For You!!
This video is freaky as......
Dat was echt moeilijk werk
The assembly and fabrication machines they made back then are amazing! Work done by American's that today would be done by Chinese children in China!
Not americans, dutchs
Don't want to do any of the jobs
Look at all the child labour...
Qin Heuang -- Yes. Young apprentices learning a good trade, or just kids helping put food on the family table? Europe being productive in the 1930s, making bongs.
@@schmeckelgruben776 , This was during the depression. I don't know if that many children were working in those factories prior to the financial crash in 1929 but by 1931 families probably had no choice but to put their kids to work in any job they could find.
Philips made the shitiest fluorescent lamps compared to GE. 5% of the lamps were defective out of the box.