Morris Gazettes - The Gift (1930-1939)

Title reads: "The Gift" Devised and Produced by Morris Motors Limited - Cine Department Cowley.
A man buys his daughter an Morris 10 motorcar and describes to her how it is made.
Mother and daughter see Father arrive with a new car. Daughter is proud of her present. Father and daughter sit down in garden and he talks of his visit to the Morris factory.
Factory scenes as steel is made in furnaces. Metal workers pour out molten metal. Metal is poured in moulds. Red hot steel ingots are taken to the rolling mill to be flattened out. It is finally turned into a sheet of metal and cooled. The sheet is further rolled and squashed until it is quite thin. The sheet is finally stretched and cleaned.
VS presses shape the metal panels for the cars. Pressed car parts move off to the body assembly shop. Parts of the cars assembled. Flash welders are used to make some joints.
VS assembly of the car. Parts are brought together and welded into place. More part are put in place and the car starts to take shape. Many of the welds are now sanded down. Hot solder is now used to fill in the many joints on the car body. VS of the near completed bodies being moved along on a conveyor belt. The doors and other parts are fitted.
VS of cars being painted and rubbed down until final coat is applied. Body trim and interior is fitted. Windscreens, seats, lights etc are fitted. The axles and exhausts are fitted from underneath. The engine is lowered into place and fitted. Various components are taken from stores alongside the production lines. The radiators are fitted and then the electrics. The final bits of body work are fitted and then the wheel are put in place and it rolls of the line.
On the finishing line the seats and carpets are put into place. Father goes back to the new car and daughter says how nice it will be to know you are surrounded by steel.
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[@seetheforest]

Love this stuff. This is the kind of movies we used to enjoy in school when I was a kid. Yes we used to watch movies from a projector in school.

[@rogerb5615]

And geeks such as Yours Truly rolled the projector cart into place, threaded the film, and kept things moving ... while the cool guys sat with their girlfriends and enjoyed the film!

[@seetheforest]

@@rogerb5615 hey Roger! Good to hear from you!

[@moondancer4660]

I watched them too!

[@daffyduk77]

Typically in B&W. Like Antarctic exploration movies etc. Broke the day up a bit, eat a bit of chewing-gum in a mainly-darkened room :-)

[@TheDripSpotter]

Beautifully spoken English commentary clear and easy to understand.

[@rubenfregaville4772]

Is right to mee too,nice english spoken ,kind of film for english schools I think, regards all from Pilar Buenos Aires Argentina

[@patriciawharfe220]

I agree with Gary, what a delight to hear that 'cut glass' accent so articulate. I was fascinated to see the assembly line ,must have been way ahead of its time in 1936.

[@barrysteven5964]

I am a linguist and am hugely interested in phonetics. By pure coincidence (I think) this film has popped up in my recommendations just after I've been studying the phonetics of this very kind of speech. I hadn't realised how artificial it was and quite different in many ways to modern RP. I always knew it sounded 'posh' but didn't realise fully why. It really is an entirely learned and artificial way of speaking not natural to any native speaker but had to be learned by actors and radio presenters in the interwar years. As Gary said, it's very clear and mostly easy to understand. My mother, who was born in 1926 assures me people just accepted that was how you had to talk on film and radio but ordinary people did actually find it quite irritating.

[@rubenfregaville4772]

​I was thinking similar ,nowadays all countries have same problems for keeping their languages, regards from Pilar Buenos Aires Argentina

[@Derelictos]

I love this old stuff

[@KevinMorrison-xj2bt]

What spiffing film old chap ! Jolly good show old boy ! My wife and myself still speak with very English sounding voices like this. Although we are a dying breed these days. Thanks for uploading old bean.😃

[@oldpanamacitybeach]

That kiss between dad and daughter, at the end, indicates that they certainly enjoy a pleasant conversation.

[@johnhowley3690]

I can remember some of those old pressis then I first working at cowley back in 1984 which was in B bilding the good old days 🤔

[@weerobot]

Awesome...

[@tjr1064]

I first thought this was a Harry Enfield skit, but then realised it was intended to be serious. Fake accents abound, and the girl behaves like she's 12 even tho she must be nearly 35. Love it!

[@sasabogojevic4653]

Very interesting!!

[@marcus2432]

Look at all these guys not a care in the world wondering what's for dinner, now sadly all dead. Life's short people get on and live your life and never waste a minute of it!

[@BobFleming-em8wx]

Wisest words I have read on KZbin in a long time 👌

[@muttonmusketeer]

Excellent!

[@imransharif443]

Nice the great gift old video beautiful

[@junglebray]

great on how a car is made, not to mention the Q&A between them, haha, shame about the intrusive ads

[@imransharif443]

Talented great old people Engineer

[@daffyduk77]

18:17 radiators can be very heavy, & I expect the old-school ones were no exception. Surprised how few power-tools were used then, loads of muscle-power required

[@Bollocks15]

My Dad worked at Morris Engines in Coventry for around 40+ years

[@kevinjekyll1521]

Back when cars were more than an appliance, what a golden era of motoring, though I must say not the most reliable. For many years I had a Morris 1948 Series E, I am sure if I had kept it, it would still be running today, show me an EV that could do that.I know the world was not perfect back then, still I Love to see a world of car history not distorted by modern greed.

[@kaptainkaos1202]

What is really sad is so many of the young men on the assembly line will lose their lives within a few years in WW2.

[@moondancer4660]

I don't think they make them like this anymore.😅

[@vijayakrishnannair]

👍 nice 👍

[@moondancer4660]

My husband used to build paint booths.

[@dusterowner9978]

Have these films been remastered ? They are so crisp and clear looking for their age . Thank You . Just ran across these and the are so fascinating!

[@wayneduffin800]

Look at Brittain Now.Whats Happened?

[@Parkhill57]

Morris engines lasted a long time, if you adjusted the valves every weekend, replaced the piston rings, and honed it every year.

[@chrisfoster9080]

If todays auto workers had to work like this we would all be walking.

[@benjurqunov]

That’s what they get for being Trump Supporters.

[@pilgrimageintothepast6086]

@@benjurqunov Unlikely given that this factory is in Oxford, UK. It still operates today and makes all Mini's. They vote Labour generally (East Oxford).

[@zimtak6418]

@@benjurqunov That's an odd way of spelling Biden.

[@xjet]

Obviously not a movie aimed at the needs/budgets of the average worker!

[@TheDripSpotter]

Oh a comment by a Laborious.

[@imransharif443]

High old machinery nice

[@Theoobovril]

That kiss at the end of this film, what was that all about ?

[@sidneydawe9937]

Notice how fit these men and women look. I did not see any huge bellies. Back then men took pride in their work even if they could not afford the product.

[@arthurhedgcock1320]

It’s interesting to see how things were done. All those men without safety glasses. Paint spraying with no masks. Men working with molten lead again with no protection. Working in the press shop without hearing protection. Nice old car though

[@KossolaxtheForesworn]

looks like Morris no longer really exists and the brand is owned by SAIC. but Im sure I have seen those old Austins, that they produced last, in a lot of places.

[@Rich77UK]

I bet you can still see these very machines working in all those 2020s video of industrious Pakistan.

[@yakacm]

The amount of labour is insane, labour was cheap then I guess, especially early 30's, those guys would count themselves lucky to be working, bet none of them on the line could even afford a car.

[@damonwilliams5033]

You are right.The men making the cars(including my grandfather) could not afford to run a car.They went to and from work on bikes.

[@izzyauna8814]

I don’t see any safety glasses or ear plugs. Lol

[@Jk-oz5qn]

Ear plugs? These dudes are spraying a car without a mask

[@BobSmith-ui4qu]

No masks , either working with solder or paint.

[@peterduxbury927]

Yes, but the workers nearly always wore a shirt and tie, even in doing such a mundane job. They respected the foreman.

[@bernardcharlesworth9860]

The same screwdriver used on mini locks in the 1990s

[@imransharif443]

Fast working mechanical workers

[@Electric_Welding]

☺🥰😍😍😍😍

[@jongroom2954]

When men where real men .

[@johnsamu]

Might be more useful to hit the brakepedal instead of playing around with scoop levers.

[@xedang6576]

💕💕💕🌹🌹🚗

[@leonptr]

Oh mother! There's dead!

[@frankevelein466]

The era where men truly believed women were silly as well as technically inquisitive.

[@YszapHun]

They were curious until the washing machine and the electric clothes iron had arrived.

[@TheDripSpotter]

Yes as soon as they were given the vote and allowed to drive motor vehicles they began to forget their place.

[@KhaNguyen-k1z]

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[@Yacine-e9p]

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[@brianbeecher500]

Angry Indian here and just wanted to say to all that the girl in the begining of the video was the daughter, remember?? So why did he kiss his daughter like that only after explaining how it was built!!! Wow just wow!!! Oh my! Better hope that car don't have a rumble seat!!!! Angry's gone again!!!