Before Amazon, the Sears Roebuck Catalog's mail order business set a standard for mass production economies of scale. An intimately-recorded personal confrontation between worker and supervisor during a tour of one of the world's longest conveyor belt systems is a metaphor for employment roles. The 1974 production, one of the earliest documentaries recorded on half-inch reel-to-reel portable video recorder, took advantage of the gear's portability with sync sound and low light camera capability.