Filming a smith making a new spring at his bench in the spring making workshop in Number 5 Machine Shop in Chatham Dockyard.

Filming a smith making a new spring at his bench in the spring making workshop in Number 5 Machine Shop in Chatham Dockyard. The photographer is standing behind the sound man and the cameraman, Pieter van der Merwe, is on the right using a JVC KV-2000 video camera. The smith is using a hacksaw to cut the end off the completed spring which is being held in a vice. An electric pedestal drill, a tin of electrodes and a range of tools are on the bench.

Object Details

ID: PCT3381
Type: Colour transparency
Display location: Not on display
Creator: National Maritime Museum Photographic Studio.
Date made: May - June 1983
People: Merwe, Pieter van der
Measurements: Mount: 50 mm x 50 mm;Transparency: 35 mm x 40 mm
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