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Balance
1989 · Film · short · 7 min
Directed by Christoph Lauenstein, Wolfgang Lauenstein
The setting is on a floating platform where a group of evenly and carefully placed men live. Each man is aware that the platform is not stable and in order not to fall to their deaths, they maintain a careful balance of weight to prevent the platform from tipping too far and cause them all to fall.
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There's a whole series of those films, all done for Chevrolet.
- "What Stops Them" - hydraulic brakes
- "Tough Friends" - automotive steel alloys
- "No Ghosts" - auto frame design for stiffness
- "Horsepower" - shows exactly what one horsepower is
- "Balance" - system integration of the automobile
- "Precisely so" - measurement and manufacturing precision
- "Streamlines" - air resistance
- "Down the gasoline trail" - from fuel tank to exhaust
All these are in the Internet Archive in the Prelinger collection of industrial films.
Chevrolet really wanted to explain how an automobile works. These films are much better at explaining than most of what we see today.