Bats and Balls: Making Baseball Bats
Bats and Balls: Making Baseball Bats
08.00.22.- MS's employee feeding rounded logs into machine which shapes & forms them into baseball bats. 08.03.40.- MS's blades of shaping machine spinning (protective cover has been lifted). 08.04.50.- panning tight LS's of production area (backlog of wood). 08.07.47.- MS's rounded logs traveling on conveyor belt, passing through machinery. Employees trim log ends. 08.13.48.- EST shots of a Rawlings building, sunny afternoon. 08.15.11.- MS sign: ADIRONDACK PLANT NO. 8, RAWLINGS. Cut to EST shots of building. 08.16.05.- CU bins w/ names of MLB teams. CU baseball bats. 08.16.30.- MS/CU's employee white-stamping black baseball bats in a machine (Juan Gonzalez model). 08.21.29.- MS/CU's employee white-stamping the Rawlings logo on black bats. 08.27.23.- MS/CU's employee spin-painting silver stripes on black bats. 08.32.05.- MS's aisles of gray colored twine spools unfurling in factory. 08.36.41.- MS's aisle of threading machines. CU's spools of white thread feeding into machine. 08.44.11.- MS's employee changing spools of thread along machine. 08.47.31.- CU's spindles spinning, grey thread unfurling. MS's employee changing spools. 08.52.35.- CU's thread unfurling from spool until empty. MS's employees changing spools. 08.57.37.- wide MS employee changing spools along aisle of threading machines.