Originally published at: How dolls were made in 1968 | Boing Boing
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Lol… I had that Dr. Doolittle doll.
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The scariest part of this video is the person painting with no respirator - presumably every day for years. Yikes.
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I worked at Mattel designing toys and spent some time at the factory in SoCal. (These are all Mattel dolls) I remember the same manufacturing steps there. If you think the spray painting was hazardous, imagine cleaning those paint masks later with big open tubs of MEK solvent— yikes!
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Me too!!!
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Wow, those dolls in the first scene are walking way better than Musk’s Optimus robot does today…way back in the '60s!
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Electrical/Electronics techs at my first employer worked with it; each of their workstations included a bottle of MEK for ready use. It was their go-to cleaner, squirting the stuff on whatever that needed to be prepared. I don’t know how its use affected them, but I can say that the entire group of eight techs were an irritable and easily ticked-off lot.
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I find this is just as likely to be the result of being a technician whose job is to work on something designed by an engineer who had never done time as a technician.
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Running for union rep, I see. 
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The production process doesn’t seem to have changed much, aside from moving to countries with lower labour costs.
(ETA: The paint is non-toxic.)
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