Builders At Work 1947

Star Item

Description

Unissued / unused material.

Bricklaying housing survey - builders at work on building site. Location of events unknown.

Good shot of bricklayer laying bricks seen through a half completed window flame. M/S ditto. A hod of bricks is picked up by a labourer who walk away from camera....

more

Data

Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Mute
Media URN:
66474
Sort Number:
UN 1710 H
Time in/Out:
01:10:28:00 / 01:11:03:00
Canister:
UN 1710 H
Film ID:
2369.09
Issue Date:

Appears in...

Collections
Newsreels
Categories
Trade & Industry
WorkSpaces
Fly Films - Post-war

Comments (0)

We always welcome comments and more information about our films.

All posts are reactively checked. Libellous and abusive comments are forbidden.

Add your comment

To post a comment, please Register or to add a comment
Adrenaline seekers from the past have left an indelible mark on the Pathe archive. Some were so dangerous they even lost their lives. Here are 10 top daredevils.
daredevil
Terrorism is nothing new. The Pathe archive has a vast collection of material related to terrorist attacks dating back to 1919 right through to the 2005 London bombings.
911
British Pathe captured many extraordinary events on film over its 80 year history but sometimes the cameras were switched on when tragedy struck.
Franz Reichelt

Related Videos

Hide
Clear The Way

Clear The Way

Road bridge collapses over main railway line to north at Hatfield.

London Bridge

London Bridge

London Bridge is dismantled so it can be shipped to America.

Cliffs Repaired

Cliffs Repaired

Repairs are carried out on the white cliffs of Dover to counter effects of erosion. Kent.

Europe's Longest Bridge

Europe's Longest Bridge

Sound interference and bad picture

'dreadnought' Under Construction

'dreadnought' Under Construction

First shots of 'Dreadnought' under construction.

Concrete Girders

Concrete Girders

Concrete girders are transported outside.

(Road Repairs)

(Road Repairs)

Workmen breaking up the road and then laying down new tarmac.

Factory Workers

Factory Workers

Footage of factory employees at work.

 

 

The death penalty has been carried out in almost all societies and although these images from WWI and WWII are unsettling, they still provide a raw account of events from a certain time.
Death Row
The images taken from inside Buchenwald Concentration Camp after its Liberation show us what it was like; it tells us what happened and forces us to remember.
Buchenwald
The great politician and orator Winston Churchill left behind a sea of humourous quips and discerning quotes. We remember some of his finest epigrams and witty ripostes.
Churchill
WW2 accounted for over 60m deaths and innumerable lives shattered. Pathé cameras took to land, sea and air to record the bloodshed. Here are the 10 bloodiest battles that were caught on film.
Battle
Life before health and safety laws; men worked at huge heights, balancing on girders and cranes all in order to help build the world's tallest skyscrapers.
Vertigo
Private UFOs, flying bicycles, motorised wheels - Pathe's archive is awash with fabulous films of canny and creative transport inventions.
Transport_Inventions
Over its history, the Pathe cameras filmed a number of people who had committed heinous crimes. So in no particular order, these images show ten faces of truly evil men and women.
Himmler