| BARREL MAKING AND COOPER INITIATING Footage of Barrel making and Cooper initiating. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 7138 |
| Catalog #: | 103326 | |
| Clip Number: | 103326-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | NP 250 | |
| Timecode: | 01:13:31 - 01:16:58 | |
| Location: | England | |
| Year Shot: | 1949 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | INDUSTRY: Barrels INDUSTRY: Craftsmen / Handmade LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England OCCUPATIONS: Unusual | |
| Description: | Various very good shots of the process of beer-barrel making and Coopering includes workmen planing pieces of oak, assembling the barrel with staves and softening timber over fire. M/Ss of apprentice Arthur Harding being lifted into newly made barrel by his work mates for his initiation as a journeyman cooper. Men his the side of the barrel with hammers, they smile and laugh. A man drops oak shavings inside the barrel followed a bucket of water. Several shots of the workmen rolling barrel round the workshop. M/Ss of Arthur being tossed in the air by his work mates. | |
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