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Description: 'WOMEN WINNING THE WAR: Women and boys working in munition factories replace men who are able to join the colours. Working on capstan lathes and large vertical drilling machines'. A brief scene of a boy working on a capstan lathe (as there is no footage of women, the item is presumably incomplete).
Production Details: War Office (Production sponsor)
Topical Film Company (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations:
Keywords: industry, British - munitions (object name)
GB (geography)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Silent
Soundtrack language: None
Title language: None
Subtitle language: English
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 31 ft; Running time: 1 min
Notes: Summary: single item from newsreel issue. Details of contents derived largely from work by Luke McKernan of the NFTVA, to whom much of the credit must go.