Film Number |
5349 |
Title |
THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH; TYRING WHEELS |
Producer |
Sam Hanna |
Date |
*1946 |
Gauge |
16mm |
Colour |
colour |
Sound |
sound (sep) |
Running Time |
9 mins 43 secs |
Description |
Soutergate blacksmith John Coward produces an iron tyre and fixes it to a wooden cart wheel with the help of colleagues. After the circumference of a wheel is measured, a tyre is welded in the blacksmith's shop. Tyres, wheels and peat are taken down to a tyring platform near a local beck. Coward and his assistants build a fire around a stack of iron tyres, whilst a wheel is attached to the tyring platform. A hot tyre is lifted, dropped and fitted onto the wheel, and water from the beck is used to cool and contract the iron to the rim. A second tyre is fitted as the narrator, Sam Hanna, reflects on his film-making. |
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