Activities At The Depot Salvage (1914 1918)

Activities at the depot salvage. Recycling various materials for war use. Opens w, a few soldiers around area w, some bins full of what looks like trash. A truck carrying bags drives down road; more bags stacked by side. Soldiers loading the bags. Building made of corrugated metal w, sign Canadian Salvage Company. Horses pull wagon of bags past building CU soldier shovelling something into bag. A few soldiers looking at metal pieces in a large bin. CU metal scraps; as a few more tin cans are dumped onto the pile. Very dark shot interior soldier cutting tin can; flattening out metal. Cool shot: bunches of metal flat as tin foil; tied together in piles of squares shiny. Then CU covering entire screen: stacked up horseshoes; placed sideways. CU soldier w, mallet smashing metal. Pan left to bundles of cloth w, sign Rags; then stacks of paper w, sign Newspapers. 2 soldiers lift a bale of some unknown stuff. CU sign Salvage Dept Seaford; then pan past more bales. .. of Meat Wrappers (220 lbs); Rope