1951 · Metal Tape Drive · Werk 627 von 1.871

A tape drive handling a thin nickel-plated bronze tape, the metal ribbon bright and stiff and catching light like a blade, a heavy reel of it standing on the spindle, the tape running over plain metal guides and past the head block, the housing of desaturated grey steel, seen close so the reel and the bright metal ribbon fill the frame, a single soft light from behind the ribbon flashing along its polished edge, warm metal against grey, the drive alone against pure black.