Giant Crane Starts Work (1960)

Birkenhead GV. The great crane on the shipyards at Cambell Laird’s Birkenhead Shipyard, & AS. SV. The driver in the cabin of the crane. GV. Looking down from the driver’s cab at the yard. LV. Men loading one hundred tons onto the crane’s platform, & LV. LV. The crane moving along on its tracks, & SV. Man walks to a telephone set in the crane’s wheel part. CU. Man speaking on telephone. LV. The driver’s cab on the crane. CU. The driver. CU. Driver operating handle. LV. A hundred ton load leaving the ground. CU. A man signalling the driver. LV. The load going into the air. GV. Two double-decker buses under the arch of the crane. Pan up to an angle shots of the jib. (Orig. Neg.) FILM ID:1690.1 A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which inc