Manufacturing of the Rolls Royce Merlin Aero-Engine in 1942.

Card Title: Rolls Royce. Merlin Engines - SOUND
Location: N/A
Date: 19/03/1942
Length: 898 secs
Story Number: 42021/2
Description: Movietone looks at the manufacturing of the Rolls Royce Merlin aero-engine. Wing-Commander Leslie, Pilot Officer Roscoe and Flying Officer Noble were visiting the factory at the same time.
Shot List.: CUTS FOR STORY NUMBER 42021 - Movietone looks at the manufacturing of the Rolls Royce Merlin aero-engine. Wing-Commander Leslie, Pilot Officer Roscoe and Flying Officer Noble were visiting the factory at the same time. Shots of the production line. Women at work also men. CUs of equipment being used. LS of girls working heavy machinery. Women war workers. CUs gauges and people at work. Travelling shot of factory floor. Camera moves across many people at work. Visitors are seen holding their ears as they are given the tour. CU of weighing scales. Various shots men at work with various machines and equipment. CUs equipment. Visitors enter a control room and talk to workers. Shot is repeated. One of the officers is allowed to operate a piece of machinery. The visitors joke with one of the women workers - very staged. They speak to a man working on a "Merlin" - they chat to each other about what great work everyone is doing. CU of the conversation. The man says that they are getting on splendidly with the help of their new mates - the women war workers. HAS of visitors in factory speaking to various workers. CU of piece of engine being looked at for impurities through magnifying glass. Various shots of manufacturing work and quality control checking. Good CUs of women at work. Engines being transported by tractor and trailer. Woman worker at her post. Shots of different processes. Precision work. LS of men and women working. In laboratory or testing room.
Keywords: Aviation; Industries, Trades and Crafts; Personalities - Armed Forces; Great Britain; Science and technology; Women;World War II.

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Women balancing the crank and having a fair bit of input on the building of the Merlin didn't do to bad 👌

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Like watching a silent film while you carpet is getting vacuumed.