The Conex Portable Warehouse - 1968
The motion picture "The Conex Portable Warehouse"
produced by Army Pictorial Center for Sharpe Army Depot, Lathrop,
California, won a first place trophy in the Industrial Management
Society's Seventeenth Annual Film competition in Chicago. The
film, which was photographed in 16mm color, was in competition with a
large group of entries from business, industry and government.
The film is the story of how Sharpe Army Depot
inserted bins into the standard conex conainer and turned it into a
veritable "portable warehouse." This "portable warehouse" had the
capacity of getting essential parts into the field in good condition
with a system of indexing and control that endabled the user to find the
desired part very quickly.
The film was produced by Lawrence H.
Mandell of the AMC Films Branch. Others to be
congratulated are Leland Baxter, contract writer;
Clem Stegdon, contract director; John Hannan,
film editor; Anthony Cassara, music editor;
Thomas Hanlon, Robert Lee and Sam Deutscher, soundmen; and the
Pictorial Branch of the U. S. Army Combat Developments Command
Experimentation Center, Fort Ord, California.
(Adapted from "In Focus" December
1968)
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