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A worker coats a gun with grease

Name: A worker coats a gun with grease
Uploaded: 2026-09-03T23:55:23.567Z
Duration: 51 s
Channel: The March of Time (Outtakes)
Description: A stocky man in a beret and a stained work jacket bends over a gun and works a thick, glistening layer of dark grease into the breech housing and the long slide beneath the barrel, a brush in his hand; behind him more barrels stand in the half-light of the hall. According to the source the guns were preserved for storage with warm cosmoline, work done largely by German prisoners.

A stocky man in a beret and a stained work jacket bends over a gun and works a thick, glistening layer of dark grease into the breech housing and the long slide beneath the barrel, a brush in his hand; behind him more barrels stand in the half-light of the hall. According to the source the guns were preserved for storage with warm cosmoline, work done largely by German prisoners.

Period: 1946
Credit: The March of Time (Outtakes)US National ArchivesPublic Domain (NARA) · Digitalisierung und Bearbeitung: © zb Media GmbH

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Clip name: HFE009665
Length: 0' 51"
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Frames per Second: 24 fps
Chroma Subsampling: yuv422p10le
Resolution: 1920 × 1080
Format: MOV
File Size: 1,136,186,740 bytes

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