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1944 DEFENCE / INDUSTRY: Factories rush equipment for invasion
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1:14Now PlayingDate: 1st May 1944
Location: RABAUL HARBOUR, NEW BRITAIN ENGLAND
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
SLATE INFORMATION: Factories Rush Equipment For Air Invaders
ENGLAND:
Folding bike and small type folding motor-bike are novelties among the equipment for airborne invasion spearhead.
SV soldier posing with folding bike on his back - stack of bicycles in background.
LV soldier with folding bike on back swings bike round on to floor and unfolds.
SV sits on bike and tightens up nuts and bolts.
CU sitting on bike and tightening up nuts and bolts.
GV int. workshops men and women assembling frames.
SV man and woman assembling frame.
CU woman welding wearing dark glasses.
SV man fixing two halves of frames together with hinges.
SCU man folding frame in half.
SV girl putting front wheel onto bike.
CU girl tightening nut.
LV bikes being packed together for transport.
GV showing small motorbikes being assembled by men and women.
SV man putting engine into frame.
CU man putting engine into frame.
SV girl looks and throws finished wheel onto pile of other wheels.
SV pile of wheels.
LV girl fixing wheel on front of finished motorbike.
CU girl fixing wheel on front of finished motorbike.
SCU man unfolding motorbike starting up machine and rides off.
LV showing men on three motorbikes running round factory floor.
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