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

Reel Number: 221413-04

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1952

Country: England,Greece,United Kingdom

Location: Europe

TC Begins: 00:37:43

TC Ends: 00:45:43

Duration: 00:08:00

Pt. 2 of 2 Continued... Flexible rubber hose filling railroad tank car at chemical refinery. Petroleum distillation; interior of control room & polystyrene extruded & turned into pellets. Greece & cement production w/ American AID expanded. Carbide factory, pan over refinery. Factory in ruins. men shoveling coal into furnace, steel billets moved in Swansea early steel manufacturing w/ much hand labor. Steel being rolled as it was done in 1900. 00:41:12 Shipyard w/ multiple ships under construction. Men shearing steel in old method. LS of city w/ large five section steel arch bridge. New Abby (?) Steel Works in ?? Wales w/ enormous ingots. Men working controls to move ingots. 00:43:09 Sports car racing around test track. Cut back to Steel mill; coal moved on conveyor; large construction. Montage CU of steel furnace. New railroad, bulldozer, other factories; large plane overhead. Steel mill, tanks over test track alongside large factory building; turned on treads in circle maintaining position of turret. Boy driving tractor on farm. LS of large factory. The End. Post-WWII Rebuilding; Industrial Technology; Economics; Middle Class; Propaganda; Modernization; Industrial Revolution; Post-WW2;

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