Shipbuilding 1920-1930

Star Item

Description

Shipbuilding - construction of ship launcher.

Location of events unclear / unknown.

Wide shot from across river panning on long scaffolding alongside ship under construction. Scaffolding round ship's bow. MS two workers. One walks up slanting board leaning on scaffolding; then climbs...

more

Data

Cataloguer:
Cheri
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
77459
Sort Number:
ON 458 O
Time in/Out:
01:03:19:00 / 01:04:23:00
Canister:
ON 458 O
Film ID:
2478.02
Issue Date:
1920 - 1930

Appears in...

Collections
Newsreels
Categories
Travel & Exploration Trade & Industry
WorkSpaces
Twentieth Century London

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
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
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
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
Barge On Road

Barge On Road

A 60 ton barge built inland is transported on a big trailer to the coast. Australia.

Oak Ships

Oak Ships

Good footage of a large oak fishing vessel under construction at Rock Channel shipyard.

Dry Dock

Dry Dock

Educational film showing the workings of a dry dock.

Women And War Effort - 1942

Women And War Effort - 1942

Women do men's work at British shipyards for war effort.

Fire After Fire Has Hampered American War Preparations

Fire After Fire Has Hampered American War Preparations

Huge fire at shipyard in USA.

Putting The Funnel On - 1930's

Putting The Funnel On - 1930's

Ship building footage.

QE2's Lifeboats (Aka Making Lifeboats For Queen Elizabeth Ii)

QE2's Lifeboats (Aka Making Lifeboats For Queen Elizabeth Ii)

Shipbuilders in Surrey made lifeboats for new liner QE2.

 

 

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
10 telling images selected from British Pathé's extensive WWI footage. 'The war to end all wars' was a war without parallel: over 70 million military personnel were involved and over 17 million people died.
WW1
The Duke of Edinburgh has many talents, but it is his unique way with words that often receives the most attention. 
LULU'S WEDDING
British Pathé filmed the 20th Century's biggest names, some of them before they even became famous. Click through and guess who these soon-to-be celebrities were when first captured by our cameras.
 Before_Famous
Private UFOs, flying bicycles, motorised wheels - Pathe's archive is awash with fabulous films of canny and creative transport inventions.Take a look at some of the more unusual but ingenious ideas that people have had to beat the traffic.
Transport_Inventions