GAS WORKS [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: GAS WORKS [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 546
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  • Summary: Women workers at a gas manufacturing plant, probably in Britain, during the second half of the First World War.
  • Description: The women work outside shovelling coke into sacks and loading these onto a cart. At another heap they shovel the coke onto sieves balanced on wheelbarrows to sort out the slag. The slag is taken in the barrows to another tip where it is dumped. The staff inside the gas works includes a few men. Lighting conditions are poor but the furnace doors are open and women are working shovelling coke inside.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (IWM 546)
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1917 1918
  • Production Country: GB
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  • Keywords: industry, British - chemical (object name) 31/3(41) (event) GB, England (geography) (concept) half-light (concept)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 372 ft; Running time: 7 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Notes: Title: the store ledger and shotsheet title for this film is GAS WORKS - PARIS. Since the lettering on objects shown on the film is in English this is possibly a misreading of GAS WORKS - PARTS Technical: starting with the scene of sieving coke the film is heavily marked with STATIC and therefore not normally suitable for commercial use Series continuity: there is no film held as IWM 547
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    IWM 546

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