Directed by Leon Schauder for the Gaumont-British Instructional company in 1940, “Shipbuilders” shows the operation of a shipyard and the building and launching of merchant vessels from keel to smokestack. A shipwright named Charlie Brown is interviewed in the course of the film, and the riveting and shaping of steel for the hull of a merchant vessel is shown.
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