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Assembly Lines of Defense

Ephemeral film · 20 min

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Running time
20 minutes
Collection
Prelinger Archives
Internet Archive item
6141_Assembly_Lines_of_Defense_01_27_39_00

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★★★★★ · "We'll just build a house right in front of the plant" · Spuzz · 2017-05-21

Excellent documetnary here about the first assembly line plant dedicated to tanks. Situated close to Detrot, this plant produced thousands of tanks in WWII (and onwards). Really quite well done document of how this plant was built and how they built the first (and second!) tank. Lots of familiar shots for those of you familiar with car documentaries (they do like their montage shots (but interestingly, this wasnt made by Jam Handy)) Great stuff. A MUST SEE on this site!