[HN Gopher] Office Cubicle Manufacturing (1954) [video]
___________________________________________________________________
Office Cubicle Manufacturing (1954) [video]
Author : 1970-01-01
Score : 28 points
Date : 2023-05-04 17:37 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.youtube.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.youtube.com)
| bmurray7jhu wrote:
| Was this type of promotional films often played in theaters in
| the 1950s?
| leblancfg wrote:
| We had cubicles like that at the Canadian Space Agency (back in
| 2017). Man were they ever nice. Some of the best concentration I
| ever achieved at work back then - no doubt about that. Coming
| from someone who is easily distracted, that was especially
| important.
| 1970-01-01 wrote:
| The time is missing: https://youtu.be/RNp5QxPyvHM?t=470
| greggsy wrote:
| Off topic from the OP's submission title, but to me the most
| interesting segment was on mobile home manufacturing later in the
| video.
|
| I recently learnt that at the time, the largest building
| construction companies were in prefabricated housing - in other
| words, mobile homes.
|
| Stories about factory-built housing as a panacea to the
| affordability crisis still make it out as if the they are some
| new concept, but they've been around for a long, long time.
| fowtowmowcow wrote:
| I think there's a big difference between manufacturing mobile
| homes and manufacturing homes or multifamily buildings like
| they to do today.
|
| That is having frames built, wired, and drywalled, is better
| than building onsite. However mobilehomes are themselves no
| where near the quality in construction you expect for a
| permanent structure (that can appreciate in value rather than
| depreciate).
| peatmoss wrote:
| Interesting to see mitigation of passing noise be casually
| mentioned as an obvious requirement. It feels significant that,
| as we've shifted more of the economy to knowledge work, we've
| placed less of an emphasis on the physical conditions that allow
| people to work without disturbance.
|
| Cubicle farms felt cramped and busy, but I look back at films and
| TV negatively portraying cube life, and think it looks pretty
| good compared to open plan offices now.
| thecosas wrote:
| This whole video is interesting, including the intermissions (A
| message from Industry to You...)
| JoyfulTurkey wrote:
| I never minded working in a cubicle when I started working
| professionally in the early 00s. For me, it was around 1000%
| times better than around 2015 when the place I worked at went to
| full open office.
|
| Probably the nicest I had was a shared private office with
| someone on my team. Got privacy and the ability to collaborate at
| the same time.
| MichaelZuo wrote:
| There are still plenty of employers that haven't moved to open-
| plan offices, at least not for engineering staff. They're just
| usually in 'old-fashioned' industries.
| mergy wrote:
| Can't help but notice the lack of face masks on the sound
| proofing and painting parts. I mean, it was a different time but
| tough to watch folks do that work in this and breathe all that
| in.
| lotsofpulp wrote:
| In a similar vein, I recall just 15 years ago how helmets were
| rarely seen when skiing and snowboarding, and now pretty much
| everyone is wearing them.
| account-5 wrote:
| I never had to wear a seatbelt in the back of the car when I
| was growing up, regularly used to travel in the boot. Now
| kids are in a cacoon.
| maxwell wrote:
| Car seats as contraception:
|
| https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3665046
| #...
| fitzroy wrote:
| As kids, we were usually in the back of a Ford pickup on
| I-95 bouncing around in a sea empty beer cans. My mom was
| very safety conscious, however, so we were forbidden from
| sitting on top of the wheel wells.
| lotsofpulp wrote:
| I love the mom with a baby in the front seat at 15 seconds
| in this video implying that DUI and seat belt laws will
| lead to communism.
|
| https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/10vc5jt
| /...
| ghaff wrote:
| Growing up in the 60s, we never wore seatbelts in the car
| and it's not like there were even airbags or a zillion
| other safety features that there are in modern cars.
|
| It's easy to make fun of some of the safety obsession we
| see in society but the fact is that if you look at some
| dangerous toys list of years past, a lot of them we
| wouldn't have today for mostly pretty good reasons.
| maxwell wrote:
| Was wondering if seat belt laws would be evident in the
| data, just eyeballing it looks like 1989-92 decreases in
| motor vehicle fatalities [1] _could_ line up with the
| rise of state bans starting in 1984 [2].
|
| But seeing a pretty linear decline from 1921 to 2021 and
| looks like big annual drops in fatalities are more
| connected to economic conditions than safety features
| (i.e. only double digit % drops I'm seeing are 1932,
| 1938, 1942, 1943, 1974, 1982, and 2008).
|
| So the drop in the late 1980s into the early '90s may've
| had more to do with the early '90s recession.
|
| 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_r
| ate_in...
|
| 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt_laws_in_the_Un
| ited_S...
| ghaff wrote:
| There are a ton of confounding variables.
|
| All the other safety features. As you say, maybe
| differences in miles driven because of recessions/fuel
| price spikes. DUI/DWI becoming less socially acceptable,
| at least in many segments of society. The overall
| evolution of attitudes towards risk.
|
| I wouldn't expect the laws themselves to have a huge
| effect. They mostly trailed public opinion, enforcement
| was limited, and penalties small if someone really didn't
| want to wear a seat belt.
| [deleted]
| ghaff wrote:
| I admit I don't but I also don't do a lot of downhill skiing
| any more and I'm not being hardcore when I do. (And I do have
| a hat with ribs of D3O impact-resistant material which seems
| a reasonable compromise.)
|
| I think there were probably a few dynamics in
| skiing/snowboarding in addition to an overall trend,
| especially among the mostly higher income people doing those
| sports.
|
| When snowboarding became the hot thing, it was a sport where
| you were more likely to fall backward and hit your head on
| some ice than was the case with skis.
|
| In addition, if there was an overall safety trend, there was
| an even more pronounced overall safety trend with children.
| Activities that were pretty commonplace like "easy" skiing
| with very young children in some sort of back harness would
| probably leave people aghast today. And I assume it's hard to
| tell kids you need to wear a helmet but I don't because I'm
| the mommy or the daddy.
| ars wrote:
| And the guy smoking while unloading sugar - or the other guy
| just casually standing inside the sugar (that still happens
| today).
| [deleted]
| tpmx wrote:
| This Youtube account (PeriscopeFilm) is a goldmine. I was
| recently recommended this film by the mighty algorithm:
|
| "BASIC PRINCIPLES OF FREQUENCY MODULATION 1944 U.S. WAR
| DEPARTMENT FILM FM RADIO 86794"
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzvxefRDT84
|
| It explains how AM and FM radio works in great detail (30 mins).
|
| Video uploader: https://periscopefilm.com/about-us/
| 1970-01-01 wrote:
| Film info: https://sova.si.edu/details/NMAH.AC.0507#ref396
___________________________________________________________________
(page generated 2023-05-05 23:01 UTC)