Mr Strauss Starts New Aluminium Plant

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1113
Date Released
2 Oct 1950
Date submitted
22 Sep 1950
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
4 / 7
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Mr Strauss Starts New Aluminium Plant. DESCRIPTION: To inaugurate the Northern Aluminium Company’s new plant at Rogerstone, near Newport, came the Minister of Supply with words of congratulation for the Company. Mr Strauss started operations by putting the big scalping machine in motion. SHOTLIST: KS. MS sheet aluminium passing through water spray. Elevated GV exterior of new plant. Interior - Strauss congratulates company on enterprise & imagination. Cut-in staff & workers listening. Strauss presses button starts "Scalping Machine". Cut-in Scalping Machine working. Various shots of aluminium gradually being thinned out into sheet aluminium. Sheet aluminium being coiled by machinery, lifted up by overhead cranes & being stacked.
Keywords
Politics and government; Industry and manufacture
Locations
Newport; Rogerstown
Card file number
54361
Credits:
Camera
Alec Tozer
Commentator
Lionel James Gamlin
Camera
Norman Fisher
Length of story (in feet)
107
Story extras:
Film clip

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'Mr Strauss Starts New Aluminium Plant', British Movietone News Issue No. 1113, 2 Oct 1950. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/16689 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)