Summary: Canada's expanding wartime explosives and munitions industry, including some explanation of the chemistry of TNT.
Description: Opens with an establishing sequence on "the strange world of industrial chemistry" and general film of workers arriving, construction of new plant etc. Explanation of the stringent "clean side" precautions, and some laboratory scenes. Animated diagrammatic explanation of the making and working of TNT. (Reel 2) Actual production: making of cordite (all processes from arrival of wood pulp to shaping, cutting and bagging); women working on caps and detonators (stresses careful, slow, deliberate work); X-ray checking of fuses; a sequence on workers' community life (residence hall for girls; recreation - a dance and bowling); making shells (filling and painting 7.2 inch shells, crimping cartridge case to 3.7 inch shell); finished shells packed and loaded; workers leave plant.
Alternative Title:
Colour:B&W
Digitised:
Object_Number:CCN 216
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:To be established
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1944
Production Country: Canada
Production Details: Department of Munitions and Supply (Production sponsor)
National Film Board of Canada (Production sponsor)
George, George L (Production individual)
McInnes, Graham (Production individual)
Braun, Joseph (Production individual)
Loew, Edgar (Production individual)
Applebaum, Lou (Production individual)
Zinkan, Beth (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations:
Keywords: industry, Canadian - munitions (object name)
recreation, Canadian civilian - social (object name)
sciences, Canadian - chemistry [establishment] (object name)
weapons, Canadian - shell: 7.2 inch shell (object name)
weapons, Canadian - shell: 3.7 inch shell (object name)
Canada (geography)
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: 2
Footage: 1731 ft; Running time: 20 mins
