Title:KRUPP ARMAMENTS PRODUCTION, LOCOMOTIVE MEDALS AND RECREATION OF EARLY FORGING [Main Title]
Film Number:GWY 11
Other titles:KRUPP COLLECTION [Series Title]
Summary: Three short sections of film of the interior of the Krupp gun barrel workshop, striking medals to commemorate early locomotive and railway construction and the recreation of a nineteenth century forging scene.
Description: I. Tracking shot from an overhead moving crane of the interior of the vast Krupp gun barrel workshop. Close up view of hammer pounding barrel and of the attached wheel mechanism which operates the hammers [ca 1915].
II. Model steam railway locomotives running on lines, named Bavaria, Neckar and Hans Sachs. Sequence on the striking of medals stamped "Ludwig I Koenig von Bayern - Zehn eine feine Mark", and on the obverse "Erste Eisenbahn in Deutschland mit Dampfwagen von Nürnberg nach Fürth. Erbaut 1835". Medal commemorates the opening in 1835 of the first railway in Germany, between Nuremberg and Fürth, to use steam engines [ca 1930].
