Title:ESSEN STREET SCENES AND MISCELLANEOUS SEQUENCES [Main Title]
Film Number:GWY 60
Other titles:KRUPP COLLECTION [Series Title]
Summary: Nine unrelated sections of film include railway film, steel foundry scenes, the Thomaestrasse in Essen and proof-testing of plate armour
Description: I. Travelling shot from a train passing through a wood in summer, past a country station and over points. View from a bridge as two trains pass each other [ca 1940].
II. Camera on overhead mobile crane tracks across the interior of a large steel assembly workshop. Exterior of Krupp factory [ca 1930].
III. Steel foundry scenes, including the manual rolling of steel bars [ca 1930].
IV. Animated diagram illustrates the water-cooling process used in a puddling furnace [ca 1930].
V. Man standing outdoors in wood removes mask from face and grins [ca 1940].
VI. Scenes in the Thomaestrasse, the main thoroughfare past the Krupp complex in Essen. Workers hurry along the street and a Krupp interplant train laden with coal crosses the bridge over the Thomaestrasse. Views from inside the main gate show girls and women outside. Trams, cyclists and horse-carts pass by creating a sense of lively activity [ca 1915].
VII. Steel plate armour is proof-tested by a shell fired at close range. Slow motion sequence [ca 1915].
VIII. Man operates a model of a mine surface installation which is equipped with an electrical hoist [ca 1930].
IX. Paddle-steamer tug on the Rhine [ca 1930].
