Icelandic Aluminium
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 4
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Icelandic Aluminium. DESCRIPTION: Iceland, famous for its fishing industry, has now a growth industry in the production of aluminium. At present they import the bauxite, but plans are being made to mine this raw material from Australia. SHOTLIST: AS Iceland. GV aluminium works. LV storage bins of works. CU sign ‘isal’ engineer Swiss Aluminium Ltd. CU control panel, man at controls. CU furnace door opening. CU interior liquid aluminium. SV impurities floating on top. SV instrument panel. CU temperature gauge for furnace 800 degrees. SV man scraping impurities from surface of melted ore. SV man controlling cauldron holding liquid metal. CU liquid metal pouring out into mould. SV liquid metal flowing in, mould pan. SV pan block of aluminium being cut to size. CU cutter going through blocks. SV blocks moving on rollers.
- Keywords
- Buildings and structures; Business and commerce; Industry and manufacture
- Locations
- Iceland
- Card file number
- 75/161A
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leonard Martin
- Length of story (in feet)
- 155
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