Learning on ScreenMovietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Speed the Work
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- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 5 / 5
- Section Title
- Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Speed the Work. DESCRIPTION: It is a national necessity for the country to produce more in a shorter space of time. Goods are wanted for export so that we can earn money abroad. SHOTLIST: LIBRARY COMPILATION -. CUT STORY: Workers’ feet walking. Montage of workers going to work, approaching factory, piston rod into camera, workmen riveting. General shots of factory. Finishing on workers approaching factory. GV pithead wheel turning. MS miners collect lamps - enter lift and descend. Miners at work underground placing supports in position. Sir Stafford Cripps superimposed over above shot. Miners boring coal - shovelling coal. GV factory chimneys smoking . Stunt shots of workmen loading sacks of coal at double speed. Steel foundry. Crane lifts red hot steel . Steel along floor conveyor. Hot steel being hammered into shape . railway engine wheels blazing - being hardened. Workmen in boiler of engine working. Stocking factory . girls with armfuls of stockings. Girls testing for defects in stockings. Cycle factory . apprentices at work on cycles . fixing pedals etc. Girls prepare cycles for transport, cycles come off finishing line. Building industry . mechanical cement mixer. GV partly built houses. Work on frame of roof, nailing, tiling . various shots of men working on houses. Stunt shots . mixing cement and laying bricks at fast speed. Victor Mardon working on lathe . Tyres being shaped by machinery . tyres on conveyor. Motor factory . Austin Seven framework off line. Finished Austin Sevens coming off line. GV new cars. Whisky . bottles being filled . cases nailed down. Loading cases of whisky onto ship ‘Export’ . silhouetted in water on dockside. SHIPYARD - Workmen under ship knocking blocks away. Ship on stocks . Ship down slipway at speeded up motion. Various shots of ships being launched. . Over this material Sir Stafford Cripps is speaking about speeding the work.
- Keywords
- Business and commerce
- Card file number
- 49076
- Credits:
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- Editor
- Charles A. Ridley
- Commentator
- Lionel James Gamlin
- Camera
- Richard Harris
- Length of story (in feet)
- 401
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