Learning on ScreenShannon Industrial Estate
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- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Shannon Industrial Estate - Irish Reel. DESCRIPTION: With the excellent facilities that have been created on the Shannon Industrial estate, the Irish Government has managed to attract foreign companies to the site. One of the most fascinating of the new industries is the sorting section of the de Beers Industrial Diamond Division. SHOTLIST: GV exterior industrial estate. GV South African de Beers Administration building. Interior furnace opening and crane lifting NoSle of steel rods. SV furnace operator. Rods out of furnace. GV ditto. CU control panel. SV rods moved to hardening-bath. CU operator. GV girls assembling Thermo-Safety switches. Various of same. Girls testing switches with micrometer. Automatic testing of switches. SV shaping and braising of copper bowls. Various ditto. Men hammering out copper bowls. Various shots bowls being polished. Shots girls sorting industrial diamonds. SV casting of new hip-joints taken from firing-furnace. Girl inspecting same. Various of joints being inspected and using x-rays, same being ground and polished. Stacking for export.
- Local distribution only
- Ireland release only
- Keywords
- Industry and manufacture
- Locations
- Republic of Ireland; Shannon Airport
- Card file number
- 77/4
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leonard Martin
- Length of story (in feet)
- 329
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