BUILDING A CONCRETE SHIP [Main]


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  • Year: 1918
  • Runtime: 7 mins
  • Description: The raw material - close-up of a piece of concrete held in the hand. Travelling medium shot from a train pulling into a siding at the shipyard - seven months ago the area "consisted of open fields". Pan around interior of design office, with draughtsmen at work. Scenes during the construction of the ship: initial wooden frame built on the ways; network of reinforcing steel hull members added; concrete poured between inner and outer shells; laying down and painting of the deck; high-angle medium shot into the hold, showing dividing concrete bulkhead; reverse shot from hold to deck house containing steam winch; medium close-up of plate brackets which form the ship's knees. Workers stand on the deck of the completed vessel. The launch - long shot as PD.25 enters the water, and medium shots of the barge immediately after launching and at her moorings.
    Construction of a concrete petrol barge, PD.25, at Barnstaple, Devon (?), 1918.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / ships, British civilian - inland: petrol barge (PD25) / ceremonies, British - event-related: ship launching (PD25) / industry, British - ships / engineering, civil, British / 31/3(41) / Barnstaple, Devon, England, UK
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Production company: Topical Film Company
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound

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