Bricks (1940-1949)

Title reads: “British Instructional Films presents a Classroom Film - Bricks“. Pan down of a large chimney - brick works. Men in a quarry shovel earth into large carts on wheels. These are then pushed along until they reach a sloping rail where they are hooked on to a chain and pulled up the slope to the brick works. Shot of the carts moving on the rails from the top of the slope and of the carts arriving at the works. Intertitle reads: “The clay is refined“. The clay is tipped from a cart into a refining machine. C/U of machinery used to break the clay into smaller pieces. Water is added and the clay is pushed through holes in a metal plate - rather like mincemeat coming out of a hand mincing machine. The smooth clay is fed into a machine which cuts it into brick shapes. Men slide the bricks off the machine and stack them on a pallet. They then push the pallet along. Intertitle read: “The soft clay bricks are stacked in the kiln to be fired“. We see the large kiln for firing the bricks fro