| Workers in Field Making/Laying Wire (?), 1920s | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6228 |
| Catalog #: | 368721 | |
| Clip Number: | 368721-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | ON352A | |
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| Location: | near Rugby; England | |
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| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | COMMUNICATIONS: Telegraph | |
| Description: | Wire making in England; c. 1920s? This footage is rather difficult to interpret; the headings are really a guess. Men working in field; first driving a tractor pulling wire behind it attached to a small "machine" which has a spool of wire and handles in back; 2 men are holding this & walking along with it; like a plow. Various shots of this work in progress- -looks as if they are cutting a very narrow furrow in the field and may be stretching wire along in it. Next several men working at a contraption which has many different strands of wire stretched across a fairly long distance; like a giant loom. This also takes place outdoors; in a rural environment. A small piece attached to 2 different wires slides along them from one side of the thing to the other. There is also what looks like a very long pole; CU man; curning this "pole" as another man winds wire into a loop in his hand. A closer look reveals that the pole is actually made up of a lot of thin strands which have passed through a thing that smashes them all together? A wider shot of this whole operation shows poles c. 15-20' high on either side of the workers and machine and maybe continuing beyond them. They are like telegraph poles so that may be the explanation for the wire. Communications. | |
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