1918 gun barrel manufacturing footage - video

[Jon]

1918 gun barrel manufacturing footage. 5:36 video:

Gun barrels are made and assembled in artillery at Bethlehem Steel company plant in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Manufacture of artillery at Bethlehem Steel company plant in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, during World War I. Two large steel castings removed from floor molds by crane and quenched in water. A very large rail gun type of barrel on plant floor is examined by an Army officer. A worker crawls through a fabricated steel cylinder, brushing debris from its interior. Water being sprayed over hot machinery and parts. A woman, in hard hat and overalls, operating an overhead crane, moves heavy gun barrels . Men hand finish gun barrels. A crew of men use extremely long wrenches to bolt a gun barrel to a turret. Workers install gun barrels into artillery pieces. Location: Bethlehem Pennsylvania. Date: 1918.

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[12bolts]

Nice footage. Shame about the graffiti splashed across the middle of the screen

[PJs]

Nice footage. Shame about the graffiti splashed across the middle of the screen

Totally agree but it is their business at Critical Past, I guess. I wonder if in purchasing these you get the water mark as a no charge at $250 per. Of the 22 comments on YT about a third said the same thing...most of the rest are from the Usual Suspects.

I get it as I buy stock photos periodically from various sources and the Movie industry has the duckets to afford these.

A full on shame they put it center screen as the quality of the film was spectacular, even without sound.