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Topical Budget 282-2: An American Munition Factory (1917)
 

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Title: AN AMERICAN MUNITION FACTORY. The old scrap steel is cut up with enormous shears and then melted down to be used for shells. A magnetised crane lifting tons of scrap steel."

Three workmen feed scrap metal into the mouth of the giant shears, which cuts them into small pieces.