GUNS [Main Title]

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  • Title: GUNS [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 264
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  • Summary: Women workers, supervised by men, constructing heavy guns at the Armstrong Whitworth munitions factory in Newcastle, probably 1918.
  • Description:
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1918
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor) Woods-Taylor, G (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Armstrong Whitworth (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: industry, British - guns (object name) 31/3(41) (event) Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England, UK (geography) (concept)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: English Subtitle language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 663 ft; Running time: 11 mins
  • Notes: Intertitles: some of these are flashframes. Summary: see also IWM 419 WOMEN'S WORK ON MUNITIONS OF WAR. Remarks: despite its length, this film consists of mere repetitions of women handling various pieces of heavy equipment and has no separate scenes or narrative.
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 264

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