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1916Thanhouser Company430 feetEducational

Big Gun Making

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Cast and crew

Director
George Foster Platt
Photographed by
Lawrence E. Williams

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The United States Arsenal at Watervliet, New York
Bowers’ notes

This film, released in Great Britain (but possibly not in the United States), featured footage taken during the production of the Thanhouser film, A Maker of Guns (released in the United States on July 6, 1915).

From Volume II: Filmography of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. Read the history of 1916 →

Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “Big Gun Making”. thanhouser.org/films/big-gun-making/

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