Hurricanes Reel 1 (1942)

Unedited material of the construction and testing of Hurricane aircraft. c. 1942 Reel 1. C/U of a clapperboard: Merton Park Studios, Jimmy Rogers and Bramley. C/U of a woman working a machine in an aircraft factory - her torso and arms are visible. It seems to be a riveting machine. Camera pans across to show another woman standing beside her helping to hold the metal aircraft part she is working on. C/U of the rivet gun. C/Us of woman’s face as she works the machine. C/U from a low angle of the two women at work. C/U of woman’s foot operating a pedal - probably for the riveting machine. C/U of another foot doing the same - different shoe! C/U of two women banging nails into a metal aircraft point. M/S of the women at work - this time we see their heads. C/U of a grinding machine (?) being applied to metal aircraft part - only workers’ hands seen. Extreme C/U of the machine contacting nuts and bolts. C/U of hands taking bolts out of a container. C/U woman’s hands as she picks up bolts