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Post-WWII - 1950, England, Economics: Ideas At Work

Reel Number: 221437-05

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1950

Country: England,United Kingdom

Location: Lancashire,London

TC Begins: 00:49:25

TC Ends: 01:03:41

Duration: 00:14:16

Post-WWII - 1950, England, Economics Long line of sedans down country road. Bearing manufacturing. LS of London & power station, manufacturing, conveyor belts of coal; textile manufacturing. Locomotives, tractors off assembly line; ship launched. Older large factory & pan over it. Construction of housing w/ bricks on conveyor; Man greasing machinery before & after grease gun. Cement mixer w/ men & wheel barrows; mechanical tractor & hauling cement. Factory & replacing hand labor w/ mechanical. 00:52:08 CU sign: Suggestions To Aid Production... Putting forms in box. Arc welding on foundry boxes, man puts suggestion in & turntable frame used to manipulate the job; receiving money for suggestion. Crating products. 00:53:40 Inking textile w/ hand block printing. Couple working on large textiles, moving inking tray. Trade union meeting w/ experts for improved method of moving ink & blocks. 00:55:29 Looms & women w/ shuttles, weaver; oiler; helpers. CU bobbins, wefts & shuttles threaded. LS of floor. 00:56:52 Cake decorating; consultant & two decorators working rolling paste, marzipan etc. Woman using jam brush to speed it up; turns assembly into assembly line method. 00:58:26 Pottery factory w/ man & assistant; pottery on conveyor. Women applying transfer designs & enamelling. Factory exterior. Int. w/ women assistants working as assistants; then moved to figure makers & ornamentors. Man at autoclave; women working at revolving tables to replace blockage of fixed tables. POV thru factory & storage. 01:03:05 Power plant on river, pan over to factories. People leaving factory gate, bicycling home. The End. Marshall Plan; Production Lines; Industry; Industrial Outputs; Trade Unions; Post-WWII; Productivity; Post-WW2; 1950s; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate.

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