Prevention and Control of Distortion in Arc Welding (1945)

• 44%
• 1945
• Animation
• Documentary

The Prevention and Control of Shrinkage in Arc Welding (1945) is an instructional film created for Lincoln Electric Company by Walt Disney Productions. The main message of the film is "Controlled shrinkage prevents distortion." Good production values make this film very watchable today (2014). An important point the film makes is that electric arc welding is a breakthrough in production that has helped avoid bolts, rivets and casters, speeding-up production and making joints lighter, stronger, and less likely to leak or corrode. An example of a major structure that was not built utilizing arc welding: the Golden Gate Bridge, each tower of which contains 600,000 rivets!