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WWI, Homefront - Airplane Manufacturing - Handley Page, R1, Pt. 1 of 2

Reel Number: H1329-03

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1917,1918

Country: USA

Location: Buffalo,dayton,Detroit,Elizabeth,Michigan,New Jersey,New York,Ohio

TC Begins: 10:24:49

TC Ends: 10:34:47

Duration: 00:09:58

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWI, Homefront - Airplane Manufacturing - Handley Page, R1, Pt. 1 of 2 Pan lumber camp w/ US flag flying & snowing. Engineer troops on railway flatcar pulled to left by locomotive. 10:25:31 Two men falling tree w/ two-man crosscut saw; logs snaked past & hauled away on railway flatcar. 10:27:04 Crane stacking timber. Lumber cut & piled. 10:27:47 Flash title: Only flawless wood becomes part of an airplane. Lumber inspected, weighed & tested. 10:28:42 Flash title: the qualified spruce is seasoned by a “process recently perfected bythe US Bureau of Forestry. To provide the needed supply one million feet must be kept in the kilns at all times. Workmen push planks on flatcar into kiln & close door. 10:28:56 Flash title: After ten days the doors of the kilns roll back & the seasoned lumber is trundled to the equalizing shed. Man opens kiln door, seasoned lumber on flatcar rolled out & men work on lumber in equalizing shed. 10:29:41 Flash title: To fill the skies of France w/ fighting aircraft - that was America’s tremendous task. What we did & what we have accomplished of that task is here fully revealed for the first time. High angle pan of aircraft factory, warehouses, railway siding & lumber yard. 10:30:53 Men going to plant, at work & people eating in plant cafeteria. 10:31:35 Flash title: In great offices expert corps of engineers & builders work out delicate problem & minute details of aircraft construction. 10:31:36 LS aeronautical engineers at desk working on blueprints; 10:32:02 Men on factory floor & machines & work benches. 10:32:22 Flash title: In the fashioning of the many small metal parts women have proved very skillful & are doing much of the work. Women soldering, sorting & assembling parts. MCU pan right to small aircraft parts on table. WW1 Homefront; Military Aviation Industry; 1917; 1918; Airplane Assembly; Two cards combined, 10:24:49 - 10:42:31 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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