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Film & Video Catalogue: Item Detail

Film Number

4701

Title

MR J SINCLAIR KERR AND HIS MANAGERS AT WORK

Producer

Unknown

Date

*1935/6/9

Gauge

16mm

Colour

b/w & colour

Sound

silent

Running Time

16 mins 13 secs

Description

Mr J Sinclair Kerr of Lancashire Steel Corporation's Irlam Works is seen with the managers of the various different departments on site. Includes footage of the construction of No 5 Blast Furnace, cutting metal in the scrap yard, feeding the furnace and inspecting finished girders and steel wire. There are views of Dr Binnie in the laboratory and the film ends with extended scenes in the new costing department, with women working at typewriters and adding machines.

 

 



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