Birth Of A Liner Record A - Reel 1 (1928)

The Canadian Pacific presents - The Birth of a Liner. Produced under the direction of Ernest C. Gill and Walter L. Payne. Thanks are given to the Shipbuilders and to Canadian Pacific. Reel 1. L/S of a large room where draftsmen are at work preparing plans for the building of a large ocean liner. Many men at work at their drawing boards. The lines are transferred to the plating model of the liner. Panning shot of the model - C/Us showing the markings on the hull. L/S of the vast Mould Loft where wooden models or templates are prepared. Men lay down pieces of wood and intertitle compares the floor, or Scrieve Board to an ultramodern art puzzle. C/U of chalk markings on the ground. The wooden templates are taken to the workshops where they guide founders and riveters. C/Us of men placing rivets in iron bars. “Four-ton steel plates are “mangled“ by cyclopean rollers...“ A steel plate emerges from between two iron rollers. M/S of iron sheets being pulled from a furnace. Men lift and drop a heav