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Title: WARTIME MACHINE SHOP

Reference number: 7352

Date: 1940*/1941*/1942*/1946*

Director: [attributed to James Anderson]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Description: Aspects of work in a wartime machine shop. In this case Anderson's Garage in Newton Mearns (?) has been taken over for the war effort by male and female workers. Includes footage of a bride to be, and her co-workers celebrating the upcoming wedding.

Shotlist: [shotlisted from speed corrected Digital Betacam tape, manual control track]

title (0.11) gvs men and women at work in the machine shop. Different areas of work are filmed, showing parts piled high and people at work (0.47) close ups of various machines in operation - including turning, precision machining of particular shapes of metal (2.06) brief shot man sawing metal, followed by shots of men inspecting work (measuring equipment) (2.41) Rocket Venturl Dept. slow pans around workshop showing various components and machinery. Men at work in department and assembly and welding of parts (4.09) painting onto the metal (4.34) young women operating turning machinery (5.34) slow pan of parts lined up (5.59) women at work on assembly line, look as if they are cleaning parts (?) and turning them (6.54) brief shot welding, then finished piece of machinery is moved and final adjustments made. Man piles up finished pieces on floor (8.59) young man shovels up metal shavings into back of lorry, rather like soil! (9.12) woman operating machine (9.39) ints men assembling and working machinery (10.33) women working machining parts (11.04) assembly and welding together of large machine. Men move the machine on wheels to a different part of the workshop (13.33) welding, 'fine tuning' of certain precision parts, gvs machine shop, further assembly gvs (16.49) c./u machine parts and precision turning etc (19.35) parts are hung up and then painted - possibly after being treated in a 'bath' of some description (?) (20.13) Passing inspection woman manually inspects individual parts (20.22) men load larger parts onto back of truck (steering wheels?) (20.56) ints men sweeping and cleaning floor (21.06) group of female workers pose for photograph outside the works building (21.24) shot of man with bunting at his workstation 'With deepest sympathy, register now for rabbits' banner above. Shots of welding (22.22) slow pan of workers lined up for photograph (23.09) staff posing for still photographs while operating various machines (25.14) woman in workshop, surrounded by balloons and bunting decorating the workshop - presumably the bride to be (25.26) woman dressed up as bride, crowds of fellow workers cheer the couple on, photos are taken (25.28) gvs machine shop, various men and women at work (27.19) gvs back yard, with rubble piled up. Lorries loaded with stone move about. Pan of yard, piled with stone and rubble around the edges (28.38) group of women workers pose for photograph (29.00) Clocking out for the last time gvs same, using punched cards (29.31) "Retired" to the scrap heap. Gvs men taking pieces of machine to the scrap yard, loading onto trucks etc (32.20) The End (32.25)