How It's Made
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| Created by | Gabriel Hoss |
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| Country of origin | Canada |
| No. of seasons | 27 |
| No. of episodes | 351 (list of episodes) |
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| Running time | 30 minutes (including commercials) |
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| Picture format | 480i (SDTV) (2001-2009) 1080i (HDTV) (2009-present) |
| Original release | January 6, 2001 – present |
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 How It's Made's channel on YouTube
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How It's Made - Topic's channel on YouTube
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How It’s Made's channel on YouTube
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How It’s Made's channel on YouTube
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How It's Made (Comment C'est Fait in Quebec) is a documentary television series that premiered on January 6, 2001 on the Discovery Channel in Canada, and Science in the United States. The program is produced in the Canadian province of Quebec by Productions MAJ, Inc. and Productions MAJ 2.
The show is a documentary showing how common, everyday items (including clothing and accessories like alligator handbags, foodstuffs like bubble gum, industrial products such as engines, musical instruments such as guitars, and sporting goods such as snowboards) are manufactured.
How It's Made is filmed without explanatory text to simplify overdubbing in different languages. For example, the show avoids showing a narrator or host onscreen, does not often have employees of featured companies speak on camera, and keeps human interaction with the manufacturing process to a bare minimum.
An off-screen narrator explains each process, often with humorous puns. Each half-hour show usually has three or four main segments, with each product getting a demonstration of approximately five minutes; exceptions are allowed in the allotted time for more complex products. Usually, every show has at least one product with a historic background note preceding it: Showing how and where the product originated, and what people used before it.
In April 2007, all episodes ran in the United States (on the Discovery Channel and Science) had the individual season openings replaced with a new opening used for every episode. Similar to most other Discovery Channel shows, the credits now run during the last segment, with only a blue screen and the request for feedback (and the website) at the end.
In September 2007, the ninth season began airing on Science, along with new openings, graphics, and soundtracks, and Zac Fine replaced Brooks T. Moore as the narrator. However, the eleventh season, which started airing in September 2008, reinstated Moore as the narrator and reverted to a previous title sequence and soundtrack.
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