The Tin Drum

The moral lesson can also be driven by political goals. The young boy who decides to stop growing, as a political protest to Nazism, in Volker Schlondorff s The Tin Drum, is making a political statement. The immorality of the regime and its influence on personal codes of conduct is so pervasive... 

The tone of hyperdrama has to embrace both the ritualistic and the fantastic—the opposite of realism. Even the poetic tone of the Western is insufficient to capture the tone in hyperdrama. Hyperdrama is a form that simulates the children s fairy tale, and as such it has to be filled with an excess (without the pejorative connotations of the word) that embraces the fantastic. "Operatic" is a description that comes to mind "florid" is another. The key is essentially an over-the-top tone that allows a story to seem plausible in which anything goes. Ridley Scott s Legend is a good example of this "anything goes" tone, and so are Boorman s Excalibur, Schlondorff s The Tin Drum, and Frankenheimer s Seconds. 

As in the case of the earlier genres, it is useful to look at a few case studies in order to understand hyperdrama in a fuller sense. The two case studies we will use are Volker Schlondorff s The Tin Drum (1929) and John Frankenheimer s Seconds (1964). 

There is no single antagonist in The Tin Drum. If there is any force that plays this role it would be nationalism, specifically the Nazi form, which in its aggressiveness destroyed countless people, relationships, and communities. The focus in The Tin Drum is on one family, on its destruction in the period when its progeny, Oscar, chose stunted growth as a defense against Nazism. 

The Tin Drum has a great deal of plot, as one would expect in a hyperdrama. But it also has many character scenes. The character layer, however, is never developmental. Oscar is principally the child, and the adults seem transient in his world they exit, or they die. Only the grandmother provides any continuity for Oscar. 

The tin third cleaner concentrate, on average, assayed 36% SnC>2 and was upgraded to 54% in a Mozley drum separator. The reagent scheme used in this plant is shown in Table 21.15. 

The binary mixtures are mixed and milled for 4-6 hr, after which the drum is stopped, the door is opened and the contents are poured out by slow rotation. The balls are retained by screen (4) while the material sifted through screen (5) falls into the tin container (7) which can be hermetically sealed. 

In practice, when cost is taken as the objective function, the optimum will be nearer L = ID the proportions of the ubiquitous tin can, and oil drum. This is because the cost... 

Phosphinic Acid Reactions. Reaction of n-butylstannoic acid with diphenylphosphate instead of a carboxylic acid also results in the formation of a drum composition [ n-BuSn(0) 02P (OPh)2] g (Chandrasekhar, V. Holmes, J. M. Day, R. 0. Holmes, R. R., unpublished work). However, when diphenylphosphinic acid is reacted with n-butylstannoic acid under reflux in toluene, a new structural form of tin is obtained (7 ). The reaction proceeds according to Equation 4 giving the stable oxide composition in 90% yield, mp 198-208°C dec. 

As to Japanese ammunition itself, one can point out the great variety of improvised devices, such as Mines Depth Charges made from wooden boxes, burlap bags with rubber lining, oil drums Grenades made of pottery, glass gas pipes Booby Traps made of tin cans and Bangalore Torpedoes made of bamboo tubes... 

Tin catalysts are very moisture sensitive and, as only small quantities are used at a time, the bulk supply will deteriorate over time with repeated drum openings. The bulk container can be subdivided. 

Dilute Aqueous Solutions. Acidify a dilute solution of picric acid (100 mL of 0.4%) to pH 2 by the addition of 2 mL of concentrated hydrochloric acid. Add granular tin (30 mesh, 1 g) and allow the mixture to stand at room temperature. The solution will darken gradually as the picric acid is reduced. After 14 days, no picric acid remains. This method can be used to dispose of 45-gallon drums of dilute solutions of picric acid. To determine when the picric acid is completely reacted, samples of the solution are analyzed by thin-layer chromatography on silica gel, eluting with methanol toluene glacial acetic acid,... 

Stannic chloride is made by the direct chlorination of tin at 110—115°C. Any stannous chloride formed in the process is separated from the stannic chloride by volatilization and subsequently chlorinated to stannic chloride. The latter is inert to steel in the absence of moisture and is shipped in plain steel drums of special design. Because prolonged contact with the skin causes bums, goggles and protective clothing should be used in the handling of stannic chloride. Stannic chloride, like stannous chloride, also forms many complexes (3). 

Hydrogenation studies were undertaken on the parent iron-tin treated coal (Drum 289) as well as the THF insolubles, preasphaltene, asphaltene and oil derived from a continuous reactor run as previously discussed. Studies with no additional catalyst added (case A) and with the addition of a sulphided nickel molybdate catalyst supported on alumina (case B) were performed. The results are presented in Table 1. The Ni/Mo catalyst in case B did not increase the conversion of the coal or the THF insolubles beyond that for case A because sufficient amounts of iron and tin materials were already... 

Tins is due to the image re-writing propensity of the rotating mirror and many drum-camera systems. Small auxiliary detonating charges can be used in a number of ways to block off light and image exactly when required. 

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