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Changing Face of Europe, The - No 4: Men And Machines Pt. 1 of 2

Reel Number: 221413-03

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1952

Country: Denmark,England,France,Germany,Sweden,United Kingdom

Location: Europe

TC Begins: 00:28:46

TC Ends: 00:37:43

Duration: 00:08:57

Post-WWII - Europe & Rebuilding, Pt. 1 of 2 Montage: ship construction, automobile factory & assembling cars; tractors moved on hoist. Looms in textile mill; women washing clothes in river, tilt up to village of poverty onside of hill. Forge beside outdoor shed where Louis Renault started; interior of auto assembly plant in Renault factory w/ assembly line & mass production. Starting car & driving off assembly line. 00:31:44 Denmark silversmith & other craftsmen. Venice & glassblowing in furnace by three men to make art glass. 00:33:05 Man in steel mill moving bar; automatic bottle factory in Germany & bottling beer. Moving bottles w/ tongs; variety of bottles past. 00:34:14 Stove manufacturing assembly line. Pouring into molds / molds moving to men. Metal moved by forklift after cutting into strips; jig making angle iron. Welding machine automatically; woman working. Metal cleaned in acid bath. 00:35:47 Swedish woodworking factory & chair manufacturing. Furniture display in window. British textiles shown. Printing fabrics w/ handblocking, rolled up. 00:37:01 Engraving designs onto presses to automatically print. Machine printing, ink dye fed onto machine. Continued... Industrial Technology; Economics; Middle Class; Propaganda; Appliances; 1950s; Post-WW2;

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