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How It's Made
How It's Made (French: Comment c'est fait) is a Canadian documentary television series that focuses on the manufacturing processes of everyday items. It premiered on January 6, 2001 on the Discovery Channel/USA Network in Canada, and later on the Science Channel in the United States. The program is produced in Quebec by Productions MAJ, Inc. and Productions MAJ 2. Production of the show ended in late 2018, and the final episode aired on March 24, 2019.
The series is a documentary that demonstrates how everyday items such as clothing and accessories, food, industrial products, musical instruments, electronics, and sporting goods are manufactured. Some episodes also cover the restoration processes and other industrial activities, including sorting mail, processing wastewater, packaging fruit, and recycling metal. While most segments were filmed in factories, the crew also visited small workshops and traditional artisans, such as Native American turquoise jewelry makers.
How It's Made does not include explanatory texts to simplify dubbing in different languages. The show does not feature an onscreen host (excluding season 1 in the Canadian version) or interviews with employees. Instead, an off-screen narrator explains the process, often with puns and analogies.
Each episode features three or four products divided by segments, with each product getting a demonstration of approximately five minutes. Some episodes dedicate two 5-minute segments to more complex manufacturing processes.
The "Historical Capsule" segment, included until season 5, introduces historical background information for the last featured product in each episode, showing how and where the product originated, and what people used before it. It presents a series of single-line drawings which got colored for a brief amount of time after completed.
The "Techno flash" segment briefly introduces some novelty from industry or science development (such as hydrogen fuel cell cars), and it was only used in seasons 1 and 2.
Before the current How It's Made series, an earlier version with the same title was produced in Canada between 1982 and 1999 by filmmaker Gabriel Hoss.
The original series comprised 36 short films of about four minutes each, covering the production of everyday objects such as croissant, light bulbs, boots, beer, soap, and chips. Unlike the later version, these programs had no narration; instead, the processes were shown with instrumental music and bilingual (English and French) opening and closing credits.
How It's Made
How It's Made (French: Comment c'est fait) is a Canadian documentary television series that focuses on the manufacturing processes of everyday items. It premiered on January 6, 2001 on the Discovery Channel/USA Network in Canada, and later on the Science Channel in the United States. The program is produced in Quebec by Productions MAJ, Inc. and Productions MAJ 2. Production of the show ended in late 2018, and the final episode aired on March 24, 2019.
The series is a documentary that demonstrates how everyday items such as clothing and accessories, food, industrial products, musical instruments, electronics, and sporting goods are manufactured. Some episodes also cover the restoration processes and other industrial activities, including sorting mail, processing wastewater, packaging fruit, and recycling metal. While most segments were filmed in factories, the crew also visited small workshops and traditional artisans, such as Native American turquoise jewelry makers.
How It's Made does not include explanatory texts to simplify dubbing in different languages. The show does not feature an onscreen host (excluding season 1 in the Canadian version) or interviews with employees. Instead, an off-screen narrator explains the process, often with puns and analogies.
Each episode features three or four products divided by segments, with each product getting a demonstration of approximately five minutes. Some episodes dedicate two 5-minute segments to more complex manufacturing processes.
The "Historical Capsule" segment, included until season 5, introduces historical background information for the last featured product in each episode, showing how and where the product originated, and what people used before it. It presents a series of single-line drawings which got colored for a brief amount of time after completed.
The "Techno flash" segment briefly introduces some novelty from industry or science development (such as hydrogen fuel cell cars), and it was only used in seasons 1 and 2.
Before the current How It's Made series, an earlier version with the same title was produced in Canada between 1982 and 1999 by filmmaker Gabriel Hoss.
The original series comprised 36 short films of about four minutes each, covering the production of everyday objects such as croissant, light bulbs, boots, beer, soap, and chips. Unlike the later version, these programs had no narration; instead, the processes were shown with instrumental music and bilingual (English and French) opening and closing credits.