Birth of a BFG

Sunday Cinema - it's 1908 and Germany and Britain are vying for naval power and superiority

"The film illustrates the processes in the casting and manufacture of a 12-inch 50-calibre naval gun - the kind of gun that would be used on battleships between 1914 and 1918. It was filmed in early 1908 at the factory of Armstrong Whitworth & Co., based in Newcastle-on-Tyne. The scale of the operation from 85,000 kilos of molten steel to the massive form of the finished gun is nicely filmed to showcase its impressiveness". (accompanying text)

[hope it's not a 'R']