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- Title: CLYDE-BUILT [Main Title]
- Film Number: UKY 502
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- Summary: Shipbuilding on the Clyde.
- Description: Basically, the film portrays - with some good details, eg of punching, riveting and launching preparations - the various processes from drawing-board design to launching, with commentary, scripted dialogue scenes and quite good editing seeking to convey an impression of speed, efficiency and reliability ('Clydebuilt' - "to others a guarantee, to us just a working standard"). In the framework of lectures at evening classes, film also considers the comparative merits of riveting and welding, and discusses the different responses (dictated by factors of time, space and personnel) of British and US shipbuilders to challenge of mass production. Film also has a "cooperate" message - scenes depict employees' representatives reporting back on meeting of productivity council, and a worker's impromptu speech, just before the routine launching, stressing need for local and international cooperation against Fascism.
- Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
- Featured Period: 1939-1945
- Production Date: 1943-09
- Production Country: GB
- Production Details: Admiralty (Production sponsor) Ministry of Information (Production sponsor) Spectator (Production company) Carruthers, Robin (Production individual) Hankinson, Michael (Production individual) Luff, A H (Production individual) Kemplen, Ralph (Production individual) Hughes, Ken (Production individual)
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- Keywords: industry, British - ships (object name) society, British - education: worker's evening classes (object name) GB, Scotland & Clyde (River) (geography) GB, Scotland & <shipyards> (geography) propaganda (concept)
- Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English Title language: English Subtitle language: None
- Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 3 Footage: 2033 ft; Running time: 23 mins
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