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WWII - 1941, USA: Government Documentary, Building A Bomber R1 of 2

Reel Number: 250096-01

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1941

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 22:00:11

TC Ends: 22:09:34

Duration: 00:09:23

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Titles. 22:00:52 Tracking shot along production line w/ men working in nose of fuselage of B-26 Marauder medium bombers; past wing sections 22:01:30 Worker adding chemicals & stirring foundry pot of molten metal; hoist bucket on overhead conveyor & pouring into mold. Sheets of aluminum under drop hammer forges. Forming w/ brake forming machines, CUs. Yoder hammer smoothing curved surface. 22:03:44 MS Moving drill press machine tool drilling wing spars. Hanging drill basket to make holes for riveting wing surface to ribs & drilling with it. 22:05:03 High speed riveter, CU stitching w/ cold soft rivets delivered in insulated ice boxes. Explosive rivets & riveting. 22:06:13 Men working with large revolving jig holding section for drilling & riveting bomber sections. 22:07:00 Men inside partially assembled fuselage. Rivet machine sorting recovered rivets. Men carry sections for assembly. Scaffolding to hold fuselage ribs for attaching skin of plane w/ men attaching sheets; working on inside. 22:08:28 Wing flaps & wings assembled & moved by hand. Propaganda; War Effort; WW2; WWII; Precision Aviation Technology; Aircraft Construction; Factory; 1940s; 1941; Assembly Line; 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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