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1946 - Ireland R2 of 2

Reel Number: 220608-08

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1946,1940s

Country: Eire,Ireland

Location: Cork,County Kildare,Dublin,Limerick

TC Begins: 06:43:22

TC Ends: 06:50:52

Duration: 00:07:30

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk 1946 - Ireland, Documentary, Travelogue R2 of 2 CU SOF Eamon de Valera speking in meeting - reads speech re political aims & unity of Ireland, economic aim w/ self sufficiency. 06:43:48 Shots re de Valera rural land settlement scheme: countryside farms; cutting grain w/ tractor & swather; stacking wheat sheaves. Pigs and piglets. Interior meatpacking abattoir / slaughterhouse; pork butchered. 06:44:18 Limerick condensed milk plant - people given instruction re milk & butter production. Girls churning butter by hand. Mechanical cutting of peat bog w/ huge machinery & trucks hauling to stockpiles & men stacking. 06:44:54 Industrial factory in County Kildare which processed peat into brickettes for sale. Barrels of beer / Guinness delivered to docks. Ford assembly plant in Cork w/ cars on production line. Dunlop rubber tire factory w/ production of tires and Wellington boots & rubber shoes. 06:46:03 LS Shannon hydroelectric power plant in Limerick; turbines. River Shannon - dam, reservoir & enormous power pipes. 06:46:33 Map of Eire showing distribution of electrical power lines; men constructing electricity pylons. Women using electrical goods in the home - food mixer, iron, griddle, toaster. 06:46:50 Dublin street scenes - shops w/ signs re Irish products & manufacturing. 06:47:13 Interior department store, couple looking at cloth. Hospital - interior student doctors watching surgery. Nurses w/ patients in wards. 06:47:50 National housing - building / construction work. Road sign in Gaelic. Boys school - children going to school, some barefoot. Boys having Gaelic lesson in classroom. 06:48:45 Irish flag flying on Government building. Eamon De Valera in office. Meetings of the two political parties headed by De Valera & Cosgrave. 06:49:30 Gallery w/ pictures of Ireland’s heroes Daniel O’Connell, Hugh O’Neil, Michael Collins & Parnell. 06;49:42 Shots of statues & buildings showing Ireland’s previous connection to Britain - Exterior.Hammersmith Works - Statue - Carving of Royal crown. 06:49:54 Market town street scene i- girls filling buckets w/ water from pump in street. Rear view catholic priest approaching church. Couple in horse-drawn cart. Scenic coastal shots. 06:50:33 The End. 1940s; Irish Daily Life; Travelogue; Post-WW2; Post-WWII; Patriotism; Government; Economics; Education; Agriculture; Farming; NOTE: Partial or entire sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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