Title:MANUFACTURE AND ASSEMBLY OF F.24 CAMERAS [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MWY 110
Other titles:INDIAN INTER-SERVICE PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTORATE COLLECTION - INDIAN HOME FRONT AND MILITARY OPERATIONS, AND ALLIED OPERATIONS IN ITALY AND THE PACIFIC DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary:In a factory or workshop F.24 cameras are manufactured for use in Royal Air Force photoreconnaissance aircraft.
Description:Interior in a storeroom; a storeman puts a large wooden box onto a trolley and wheels it away. As the trolley passes the boxes are seen to be marked 'Camera, Aircraft, F.24'. Retake. Close-up wooden box with stencil text. A storeman packs a camera into a crate. Close-up placing camera into its crate. Close-up cameras on shelf, catching the light brightly. A piece of automatic (camera?) equipment in operation. A female operator looking through an eyepiece. Woman at a workbench with a camera (repairing or assembling?). Different angle; screwing in lens. Lens on bench. Closer shot lenses. A male technician at a lathe (grinding a lens?) with water running over the work. A tray of components. Female technician at work. Male technician testing a mechanism. Technicians at work. Piece of machinery (mill or lathe?) spinning. Woman operating drill. Stacked parts; a storeman adds more to the pile. Technician plugging cables into a camera and testing. Close-up showing legend: '2V brown on A white on C. 24V brown and white on B' with mechanism moving. Workshop with various bits of equipment and people at work. Man operating machine.
Alternative Title:INDIAN INTER-SERVICE PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTORATE COLLECTION - INDIAN HOME FRONT AND MILITARY OPERATIONS, AND ALLIED OPERATIONS IN ITALY AND THE PACIFIC DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
