TRANSFER OF SKILL [Main Title]

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  • Title: TRANSFER OF SKILL [Main Title]
  • Film Number: UKY 214
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  • Summary: Illustrates the way in which peacetime craftsmanship is used in wartime.
  • Description: Each sequence shows normal job, wartime adaptation, and wartime need. Examples used: jewellers produce gauges used to measure tank parts; the skill of engraved design by engine turning is used to produce a navigational calculator (Battenberg course indicator); watchmakers produce time fuses for AA shells; a fishing rod maker now makes machine gun parts (film of test-firing BESA mg); a company that made luxury river craft now makes RAF tenders; Mr. Crevin, model engineer, turns from model railways to shell parts; fishermen's skill in net making used for camouflage netting.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: UKY 214
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1940-12
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor) Shell (Production company) Bell, Geoffrey (Production individual) Elton, Arthur19061973-01-01 (Production individual) Mander, Kay (Production individual) Hillier, Erwin (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations:
  • Keywords: economics, British national - employment: wartime skill redeployment (object name) society, British - precautionary: war work (object name) GB, England (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English Title language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 902 ft; Running time: 10 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    UKY 214

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