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Title: WARTIME PRODUCTION - H. MORRIS & CO.

Reference number: 1504

Date: 1937 - 1941*

Director: [attributed to Frank Marshall]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 16.47 mins

Description: Shot inside the H. Morris & Co. factory during wartime production of rifle stock, fuse boxes, aircraft plywood, etc by both men and women.

Find out more about the history of Morris Furniture on their website at http://www.morrisfurniture.co.uk/history [last accessed 3/4/2008]

Shotlist: REEL I (*1937/39)

No credits. [B/W] Production line. Women line trays for drying cordite (bound for Nobel/ICI at Ardeer) (0.51); Trolley load of trays are pulled into yard (1.53); ms female worker feeding wood into a machine [dark] (2.37) c/u machine cutting rifle stocks? [dark] (2.48); Women in assembly shop making up packages for compressed wood and finishing off lining on cordite trays (3.51); c/u man drilling holes; woman machining chair legs (4.11); Shots of veneer process (4.30); c/u leaflets; c/u gearwheel with veneer finish; fuse box with veneer lining (5.05); H. Morris & Co trade mark. (5.19); Chair (5.34); c/u needle gauges; Shots of veneer press being opened and emptied of sheets of aircraft plywood (5.56); [Underexposed] Factory interiors (6.14); Horse-drawn LMS wagon leaving yard (6.21); Exterior factory buildings and shots of yard (6.35); [Underexposed] Shots veneer press and offices (7.00); Products Parade Avodire H. Morris & Co Ltd. Glasgow Wood Goes to War; c/u of parts of rifle stocks; completed rifle (8.23); [Underexposed] sheets of plywood being moved; shop floor at rest (9.02); Shots of machine tools in operation [Underexposed] (9.45)

REEL II (*1941)

No credits [B/W] Shots of machine tools cutting rifle stocks, some underexposed (1.17) brief exts. ; ints. machine cutting five stocks simultaneously; loading process, machine cuts different patterns; pan over room of similar machines (4.10); shot man operating a printing press [printing order forms?] (5.06) exts. drying racks, sheds and kilns on factory premises; ints. drying racks (7.02)