Uses small models to explain how power is generated to run machines.


Shotlist:

Shots of boy and girl riding bikes starting with their legs then cutting to front MS; shot from back seat of boy leaning out car window waving to children on bikes; shot of makeshift bowl and tools with hands grinding corn; shot of strange tool spinning and making hole in sea shell cuts to close up of same thing; LS of yoked animals being driven through rice field; close shot of toy sail boat being blown back and forth by children in stream that cuts back to a MS; shot of boy with a toy windmill spinning and moving an attached gear with boy behind it; CU of boy’s finger against the gear; cut to large windmill with a pan down to a pump; cut to boys playing with toy sail boats letting them go down a stream MS; CU of small fan being turned by the current of the stream while boy holds it; close shot of toy water-wheel with gears being turned by stream; CU of turning gears; low LS of factory pan to electricity wires; cut to toy water-wheel panning to tiny electric generator pans across tiny electric lines to toy factory. Toy car in background; person takes front off toy factory and cut to CU of wire being attached to tiny motor and motor spinning; pan to small mechanical hammer going up and down; cut to tiny mechanical saw and small pieces of wood being pushed onto it and cut; shot of tiny pieces of wood being put on similarly sized conveyor belt and moved onto toy truck which is pushed away; MS of woman sitting at table, boy runs into room with large battery; CU of battery having a wire with a nail attached connected to it. CU of paperclips magnetically sticking to nail; cut to small box top with paperclips attached turning on pencil because of the small electro-magnet; CU of finger touching wire to battery and bringing it back repeatedly; boy watching electro-magnet; shot of fan being switch on with an ashtray and books in background then rotating; CU of washing machine washing clothes; CU of square clock ticking; shot of train whistle blowing and cut to its wheels moving on a train track w/ gears turning; shot of steam shooting into air; shot of locomotive moving on tracks towards camera until part of undercarriage is shown; CU of tiny steam whistle being turned on and off; shot of candle under tiny steam engine pan to tiny wheel being turned by steam; CU turbine assembled from pencil, straight pin and aluminum foil; MS children watching tiny turbine turn due to steam from a tea kettle; shot of ship’s propeller turning in water; tiny steam engine attached to tiny generator which starts turning and pan down wires to tiny street lamp; CU of match being lit on sidewalk and then burning out; shot of match box and magnifying glass on sidewalk with a stopper being taken off of a bottle and having matches put inside; MS of family on sidewalk continuing from the last shot father licks fingers and rubs them on stopper and putting it back on bottle; CU of magnifying glass aimed at bottle while matches light and the cork pops out of the top; drawing of wheels being turned by heat from match in bottle fade to same drawing with small explosions turning wheels instead of match; LS of semi-truck going down rural street with trees/ electric poles in foreground and house in background; CU of wick being lit and toy plane being assembled so that its steam comes out the back and are used to blow grass; MS of family’s father throwing toy plane into the air and it flying around a baseball field; VS of city lights at night time; woman using outdoor water spicket to turn small water-wheel; LS of children riding bikes down rural street away from camera