Women Munition Workers 19141918

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Women Munition Workers. • • Location of events unknown - somewhere in Britain, could be Bradford, Yorkshire? • • Great film of women war workers at Phoenix munitions factory. (Much of this footage is duplicated on Pathe ON 240 D; but there is also much additional here.) • • Funny shot - man walks along row of terraced houses taps on upper windows w/ very long stick. Wake up. Some windows open. Women workers walk past long low brick factory building; hurry through door. Next; nurses tend babies in cots - on-site creche / day-care! CU 1 nurse holds baby; other talks to it. • • CU woman worker uses tools to check measurements of shells. ECU form where she marks Good; Repair; or Scrap. Woman shows cylinder; puts it in machine; shows shell again w/ ridge on end. Various shots women machine operators; singly or in groups. More checking: pan left row of women at counter. CU 1 checker demonstrates all different tests • • Next; exterior: horse-drawn wagon; pan to another; w/ crate lowered by hook. CU Woman machine operator. Pan on men working on shells; many shells stacked up. Man woman working at machine. Hand-truck pushed under pallet w/ box of shells. • • Women eat meal in dining hall. CU woman gets out of car; walks to door; enters. 2 women exit building; 1 points; giving directions. MS 2 men working on truck; load of cylinders lifted w/ chain; pan as they swing from truck to building; workers carry them in. CU woman operating machine. Then just big black machinery in action. • • Industry; labour; weapons. manufacturing. World War One; home front. • FILM ID:2360.04 • A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT'S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. http://www.britishpathe.tv/ • FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT http://www.britishpathe.com/ • British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website. https://www.britishpathe.com/

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