BUILDING A CONCRETE SHIP [Main Title]

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  • Title: BUILDING A CONCRETE SHIP [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 584
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  • Summary: Construction of a concrete petrol barge, PD.25, at Barnstaple, Devon (?), 1918.
  • Description: The raw material - close-up of a piece of concrete held in the hand. Travelling medium shot from a train pulling into a siding at the shipyard - seven months ago the area "consisted of open fields". Pan around interior of design office, with draughtsmen at work. Scenes during the construction of the ship: initial wooden frame built on the ways; network of reinforcing steel hull members added; concrete poured between inner and outer shells; laying down and painting of the deck; high-angle medium shot into the hold, showing dividing concrete bulkhead; reverse shot from hold to deck house containing steam winch; medium close-up of plate brackets which form the ship's knees. Workers stand on the deck of the completed vessel. The launch - long shot as PD.25 enters the water, and medium shots of the barge immediately after launching and at her moorings.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: IWM 584
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1918
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor) Topical Film Company (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations:
  • Keywords: ships, British civilian - inland: petrol barge (PD25) (object name) ceremonies, British - event-related: ship launching (PD25) (object name) industry, British - ships (object name) engineering, civil, British (object name) 31/3(41) (event) Barnstaple, Devon, England, UK (geography)
  • 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: 420 ft; Running time: 7 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 584

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