Reel Number: 221531-11
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1939
Country: Luxembourg
Location:
TC Begins: 10:53:15
TC Ends: 10:57:15
Duration: 00:04:00
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Luxembourg, Grand Duchess Charlotte; Foreign Affairs Minister Joseph Bech; Steel Industry. ca 1939 Her Royal Highness The Grand Duchess Charlotte at writing dsk in Grand Palace, Luxembourg w/ telephone & glass vase. 10:53:54 Military men salute & review troops in snow outside ?? Probably Prince Felix & son Jean Benoit who became Grand Duke of Luxembourg. 10:54:23 Two men at desk, Minister for Foreign Affairs Joseph Bech on right w/ ?? (may be Prime Minister Pierre Dupong) talking (MOS). MCU Bech on telephone & talking. 10:55:18 Int. of steel mill w/ men shoveling into furnace; many sparks, fire & heat. White hot iron rod onto rollers & moving thru rolling operation. Snaking around floor seen from overhead. 10:56:31 CU rollers & water cooling. Billets of steel moved & rolling. Steam w/ flames behind. Very Good Steel Industry 1930s; Royalty; Pre-WWII Europe; Military; NOTE: Luxembourg remained neutral during WWII.