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Description: | Short sections of film on Krupp labourers finishing shells [ca 1935] and Krupp workers outside the complex in Essen [ca 1915].
I. Inside a factory, worker turns and measures a large calibre shell on a lathe. Overhead cable crane moves two large calibre shells into workshop. Machine bores breech of large calibre gun barrel. Man turns large shell, stops lathe and measures shell. Assembly of large shells. Men paint up-ended shell cases as high as themselves.
II. Crowds of well-dressed workers enter and leave the entrance into the Krupp complex beside the Schmiedepressewerke from the Thomaestrasse in Essen.
III. Nine girl factory workers sit and fool about on a pile of shell cases.
IV. No 3 tram marked Rellinghausen stops in the Thomaestrasse beneath the bridge connecting the Krupp complex. Passengers crowd on. Further along the Thomaestrasse towards the Hauptverwaltungsgebaude (on left) a truck and car pass. Well-dressed men (clerks?) cling to a tram which stops and stare at the camera. No 4 tram passes in other direction.
V. Electromagnetic crane lifts shell cases onto a large heap.
VI. Man bores gun barrel breech.
VII. Men and girls at work producing shell cases.
35mm | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Krupp | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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