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DetailsOriginal Format: 16mm Colour: Colour Sound: Sound Duration: 10 mins 45 secs Credits: Thomas Smith & Sons (Rodley) Ltd Leeds Presents: The Smith at Work - A Technique Film Production
Photographed by George Still and Alvin Willis
Edited by Henry Kirby
Produced by Ronald H Riley,
Narration by Frank Phillips
Written by Jack Saward
Recorded At Merton Park Studios on Western Electric
Directed by Jack A Saward
Subject: INDUSTRY WORKING LIFE
Summary This is part of a collection of films held by Sheffield teacher William Gordon Gregory. It is a promotional film for the cranes and similar machines manufactured by Thomas Smith & Sons of Rodley, Leeds.
Description
This is part of a collection of films held by Sheffield teacher William Gordon Gregory. It is a promotional film for the cranes and similar machines manufactured by Thomas Smith & Sons of Rodley, Leeds.
Titles: Thomas Smith & Sons (Rodley) Ltd Leeds Presents: The Smith at Work - A Technique Film Production
Photographed by George Still and Alvin Willis
Edited by Henry Kirby
Produced by Ronald H Riley,
Narration by Frank Phillips
Written by Jack Saward
Recorded At Merton Park...
This is part of a collection of films held by Sheffield teacher William Gordon Gregory. It is a promotional film for the cranes and similar machines manufactured by Thomas Smith & Sons of Rodley, Leeds.
Titles: Thomas Smith & Sons (Rodley) Ltd Leeds Presents: The Smith at Work - A Technique Film Production
Photographed by George Still and Alvin Willis
Edited by Henry Kirby
Produced by Ronald H Riley,
Narration by Frank Phillips
Written by Jack Saward
Recorded At Merton Park Studios on Western Electric
Directed by Jack A Saward
The narration informs the viewer that for over 100 years Thomas Smith and Son manufactured cranes and excavators, and that all machines can be adapted to work as a navy shovel, trencher, drag line skimmer scoop or crane. The film shows several machines in action beginning with the ‘Two-ten’. It provides details of the engine, its operation and its special features. A diagram shows the greasing points. Then the controls and attachments are shown as we see a demonstration.
Next is the “Seven” (indicating tonnage). Then the “Five-Twenty”, loading coal into wagons. This is followed by the Three-ten”, then the largest , working at Ketton cement works, followed by the” Two-ten” shown on rails at a coke works. The machines are then shown being manufactured in the factory. A woman packs and sends out spares. They are shown in India, Egypt and Australia; working for the navy, military, air force and civil authorities.
The End