Title:KRUPP BOMB DISPOSAL AND FIRE-FIGHTING [Main Title]
Film Number:GWY 38
Other titles:KRUPP COLLECTION [Series Title]
Summary: Three sections of film show a bomb disposal scene, Krupp firemen playing hoses on destroyed buildings still smouldering and firemen apparently testing a fire-resistant agent.
Description: I. Crane with a Krupp electromagnet lifts a ca 250lb unexploded bomb from a railway track, with coal bunkers in the background, and deposits it in a large protective shield. A clamp is fixed to another bomb and a current passed through [ca 1942].
II. Fire engine pulls up. Firemen play hoses on large burning buildings and ruins in an area of the Krupp complex, which has been subjected to extensive bombing. Weather is wintry [ca 1944].
III. Firemen light a fire [with phosphorus?] on the roof of a wooden building which has been partially covered with a fire-resistant agent. Observers watch the roof burning in places before fireman hose it down [ca 1942].
