| ACTIVITIES AT THE DEPOT - SALVAGE Salvage/Recycling Materials for War Use | ||
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| Tape Master: | 5150 | |
| Catalog #: | 367013 | |
| Clip Number: | 367013-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | ON 156 C | |
| Timecode: | 01:09:37 - 01:11:59 | |
| Location: | Canada | |
| Year Shot: | 1917 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ENVIRONMENT: Recycling INDUSTRY: Waste Management, Recycling LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: Canada WORLD WAR ONE, HOMEFRONT: Rationing & Shortages | |
| Description: | World War One. Salvage Dept. -- homefront. Recycling various materials for war use. Opens w/ a few soldiers around area w/ some bins full of what looks like trash. A truck carrying bags drives down road; more bags stacked by side. Soldiers loading the bags. Building made of corrugated metal w/ sign "Canadian Salvage Company". Horses pull wagon of bags past bldg. CU soldier shovelling something into bag. A few soldiers looking at metal pieces in a large bin. CU metal scraps; as a few more tin cans are dumped onto the pile. Very dark shot interior - soldier cutting tin can; flattening out metal. Cool shot: bunches of metal flat as tin foil; tied together in piles of squares - shiny. Then CU covering entire screen: stacked up horseshoes; placed sideways. CU soldier w/ mallet smashing metal. Pan left to bundles of cloth w/ sign "Rags".; then stacks of paper w/ sign "Newspapers". 2 soldiers lift a bale of some unknown stuff. CU sign "Salvage Dept Seaford"; then pan past more bales ...of "Meat Wrappers (220lbs); "Rope & String" (184 lbs). Shovelling into bag again. CU man scraping oil or something out of can into barrel. | |
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