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Description: | Six sections of film record the testing of springs, gun carriage suspension, the LK1 tank and armour plate.
I. Workers make springs under the supervision of a foreman. Female workers test the springs which are then finished on grindstones.
II. A small engine tows a gun and limber around a circular railway track outside a factory. A small ramp in the path jolts the wheels of both carriages as they repeatedly pass over the same ground.
III. A small group of civilians and officers watch the trials of the Leichte Kampfwagen I prototype (only prototypes were built). The light tank manages to drive along level terrain but repeatedly fails to surmount a ditch. [mid-1918]
IV. Proving steel armour plate by a shell fired at close range. Impact shown in slow motion.
V. "Aufnahme mit Zeitlupe" (slow motion film) with Krupp trademark of three linked circles is title before slow motion film of a shell hitting a steel plate.
VI. Naval officers and civilians stand watching several large oil blazes. Sequences presumably show the testing of armour plating of oil tanks against shell fire. [Film probably predates 1915 after which the German Navy tended to use coal.]
35mm | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Krupp | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Kinematographische Abteilung der Friedrich Krupp Aktiengesellschaft Essen | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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