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MANUFACTURING 3-INC ANTI-AIRCRAFT SHELLS WORLD WAR II ORDNANCE FILM FRANKFORD ARSENAL 1 [View all]
Kind of a mundane film of a very complicated and labor intensive process at a factory in Philadelphia in WWII. Note how the workers have no safety glasses, use spray paint and lacquer with no breathing masks, no gloves with all those metal edges, rinse and wash processes throwing liquids all around, I think it says 1000 shells in an 8 hour shift.
Amazing they even made a film of this, and that it still exists.
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