Women in the industrial workforce on the homefront in Britain during World War 1. Opening scene shows several British women in working garb painting a railroad car. Other women perform manual labor alongside railroad box cars in a rail yard near a factory, as two women pass them pushing a small flatbed rail car loaded with steel rail parts. Change of scene to outdoors, where women are felling trees. Two in foreground are using a grinding wheel to sharpen an axe, while behind them, two push on a tree while two others use a long two-handled saw near its base. They jump clear as the tree falls. Women wielding axes to cut trees, elswehere in the woods. Two women with a two-handled saw, making final cuts on a standing tree, and stepping out of the way as it falls. A woman painter on a scaffold supported by block and tackle rigging four stories high on the side of a city building.
Women employed in a factory in Britain, during World War 1. Several women in grimy work clothes move what appears to be ore, in small open rail cars, atop a steel platform. Two women move one car to the end of the platform, where one pulls a long lever to tip it upside down and empty it. The next scene shows women pulling logs from symetrical stacks and placing them into open wooden rail cars. Two women move a log-filled car along the previously seen steel platform. Camera pans closeup of some of the women factory workers posing, with two men who appear to be supervisors. Closeup of two factory worker girls. They smile and laugh while posing.
A British battery of 8 inch heavy howitzers in operation, in France, during World War One. Crews step back and turn away when gun fires. Gunners wait until long recoil is finished before returning to the gun.
British troops moving along Cambrai road in France on April 9. Soldiers and officers stand with various horse-drawn wagons loaded with supplies. Soldiers with picks and shovels for trenching. Long lines of British forces and supplies moving along the Cambrai road in wagons pulled by teams of horses. Artillery being pulled by horses. A motorized ambulance in the midst of the convoy.
French recruits receiving physical training during World War 1. They exercise on the field. They run on a track. They do long jump. They run on the field. (WWI. WW1)
Camera pans over countless canvas-covered French army trucks in a large depot at an area well behind the front lines, untouched by combat,during World War 1. Several large buildings are seen in the background. A long line of empty army trucks with canvas covers, drives along a road, out of the depot. Buildings and trees line the background. Scene shifts to interior of depot containing stacked drums of lubricating oil. Workers inside move materials on hand carts. Scene changes again, to outdoor storage yard for gasoline. It is in containers within wooden crates, that are stacked up high in the yard. Workers use large hand trucks to move materials. (WWI. WW1)
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