| MUNITION WORKERS (aka WOMEN WHO SERVE THE GUNS) Good item showing munitions workers filling shells and land mines with explosives. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 7074 |
| Catalog #: | 511205 | |
| Clip Number: | 511205-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | NSP 438 | |
| Timecode: | 01:28:19 - 01:30:19 | |
| Location: | Australia. | |
| Year Shot: | 1944 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | BEHAVIOR, HUMAN: Gender roles INDUSTRY: Munitions / Weapons / Armaments LOCATIONS/AUSTRALIA: Misc OCCUPATIONS: Factory Workers OCCUPATIONS: Women WORLD WAR TWO, HOMEFRONT: War Work | |
| Description: | MUNITION WORKERS (aka WOMEN WHO SERVE THE GUNS) Good item showing munitions workers filling shells and land mines with explosives. Australia. A special train pulls into Australian station carrying munitions workers to rural factories, the workers, who are mostly women, pile out and make their way to the factory. They put on special uniforms and caps because they are working with explosives, M/S as they walk along. Camera pans across shell cases and landmines waiting to be filled. Various shots as cordite is laid out and cut into sections like spaghetti. C/U's as liquid TNT and aminol (?) are poured into shell cases from jugs. M/S's as the lids are fitted and they are packed in cases. M/S of the factory kitchen, a chef cuts through a huge joint of beef. L/S pan across the workers eating in the canteen. Show girl workers put on a dancing show for the rest of the people. M/S as anti aircraft guns fire the results of their labours in the field. | |
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