Title:KRUPP INDUSTRIAL, SOCIAL AND MISCELLANEOUS SEQUENCES [Allocated Title]
Film Number:GWY 39
Other titles:KRUPP COLLECTION [Series Title]
Summary: Short sections of film from various periods show a coal truck in a shaft, workers in an Essen street, industrial area, Thomaestrasse in Essen, Krupp locomotive workshop, street scene, tricycle fire engine, factory workshops, production of Krupp cash registers, launching and other views of Krupp vessels, a railway scene and waving crowds.
Description: I. Workers manhandle a coal truck inside a mine. Truck descends shaft [ca 1930].
II. Workers pass along a street in Essen which runs at right angles to the Thomaestrasse. Tower of Hauptverwaltungsgebaude visible in background [ca 1930].
III. Panoramic view of industrial area [ca 1930].
IV. Thomaestrasse in Essen beside the Gussstahlfabrik, with trams passing and a Krupp interplant train crossing the overhead bridge. Lively atmosphere of street scene is highlighted by ancient fire engines rushing past. Street is full of people including girls running, a woman with a pram and many other pedestrians [ca 1915].
V. Interior of the locomotive workshop shows locomotive on a moving platform. Locomotive pulls a long line of 1x4x1 completed locomotive frames marked Krupp [1940].
VI. Another street scene with woman and child in foreground and a truck and trailer with long metal frame or ladder passing out of sight. Also visible is a road sweeper [ca 1920].
VII. Motor tricycle fire engine speeds past a siding in the Krupp complex [ca 1930].
IX. Another street scene with Krupp complex in background and trams and cars passing [ca 1930].
X. Krupp electromagnet crane deposits and lifts gun carriage wheels [ca 1930].
XI. Foreman supervises workers making cash registers [ca 1920].
XII. Launching of small American vessel and the German cargo ship Oberschlesien (1921) at the Krupp Germaniawerft in Kiel. Views of other vessels at sea, presumably also Krupp built, including USS Ripple [ca 1921].
XIII. Railway locomotive draws trucks [ca 1930].
XIV. (Negative) film of waving crowds.
