Building Spruce Bi-Planes WW1..1918 cool Film 

This is the sort of arcane video that keeps me logging into RU-vid, but, gotta say, if they had piped this music into the factories, we would have lost the war.

The progress achieved in the first 50 years of flight is truly amazing!

The video is great, the background music really sucks. I muted it.

A real treat! It's great to see the disciplined and coordinated effort of a better generation, as well as some great process engineering! I loved this! Thanks so much.

Great historical film, but thank god for a mute button.

Wonderful to see the exquisite hand craftsmanship that went into building those early planes! Although there was a lot of mechanization as well. A fascinating look at an early aircraft factory.

In 100 yearw people will view what we are doing today as primitive and dangerous. These people were heroes of their time, doing diligent service. I love and admire my graneparents.

I'm watching this as I wait for some glue to set on a sixth scale RC model biplane I'm building. It's a bit later than WW1 (a Havilland DH 60 from around 1930) but the techniques I'm using are not so different from this although I didn't have to fell the trees first! This is a brilliant find and interesting to watch. Thank you

Wow! I don’t know why I’m surprised at the scientific process they were using to test for wood quality, strength and density! This is a great early documentary!

Is this the music that started WW1 ?

Having built 9 airplanes, most wood with fabric over, I can sure appreciate all the hard work these (mostly ladies) are doing. I am sure glad I had heat-shrink Dacron for the wing and fuselage covering! But the wings are stitched with the same knot, a bit closer spacing. I think most of my stitches were on 1.5" spacing, with 1" in the prop wash area. Loved using that beautiful aircraft grade spruce! Marvelous wood, to be sure. You sure did pick weird music for the sound track! Thanks for posting the film.

I loved the progressive music. Great arrangement for all to view by. We as pilots should hit our knees and pray for these fine people that built aircraft. What a wonderful find and sharing this film with the viewing public. I wish I was on the assembly line helping them.

Fantastic video with historic value, with complete production overview !!! But please, ask someone to rework the short texts and the music that does not fit the subject.

Great Video...I hit the mute button and listened to Sinatra on Sirius XM radio! Thanks for posting this. I used to scratch build large RC models. Nice to see how the "full scale" were made in detail Back in "The Day"! My Grandfather was in WW-1.

Disregard the naysayers! I live in Washington State, where pot is legal, and I *LOVE* the jazz bg!! Really amazing footage, too, consider me subbed!

I watch till end amazing 😍😍😍

Absolutely terrible music. Mute button works great.

Incredible, thank you for sharing this video, very cool…the pilots who flew these machine had lotta guts..

fabulous film, and great music choice, very effective. also, to anyone reading this - please pay close attention to the size of the trees and have a think about that.

I enjoyed the music and I am talented enough to be able to stop frame quickly enough to read the text. Fun. Excellent video and I enjoyed seeing production from start to finish. Unsettling to know that all of these souls, men and woman are no longer with us. Let alone the destruction to life and limb when these war beasts flew over. Thanks.

I thoroughly enjoyed this video. The incredible work that went into those planes is just amazing. As a career woodworker, this is just great to see the spruce being shaped and joined. Also the propellers. That is so interesting to see all the handwork being done. And yes, I muted it quickly, and had to stop and go back for all the captions. But still, I loved it.

Fantastic video quality for 1918. I’m amazed it survived.

music is FANTASTIC!!!!! Fits well ... jungle jazz!!!!! Thanks!!!

This video is a treasure for documenting early aircraft manufacturing.

That music works great! What is it - 50's avant garde jazz? Who's the artist?

I really liked the background music. Very Miles Davis like super cool.

I have tools from grandparents who were young adults during WWI, I recognize a couple tools from the "propeller" manufacture section

I didn't know they had music like this in 1918. I like it!

Brilliant just that, I loved to watch How We Used To Live, but this is truly a video to watch and absorb. thank you for the posting, and thanks for no adds for 47 mins.

LOVE the music...goes perfectly with the vid...old and new together!

Great film and thanks for uploading. Interesting to observe the incredible dependency on manual labour and the comparatively non-existent OH&S back then. Times have certainly changed. As a woodworker and a pilot this is fascinating - the propeller shaping machine for one. Wow. So the music isn't to everyone's taste (including mine) but that's cool - can't please everyone. What I am seeing is a lot of entitled complaints with little gratitude - another sign of the times sadly. When someone has gone to the trouble of putting content like this up for our benefit, surely the first response should be of gratitude, yes?? ...and pausing the vid is not such a hard concept to grasp for the brief captions... :-) Cheers and thanks from Sydney, Aust - Dave

Amazing craftsmen and women. Quality control was every step of the way. 👍

Amazing amazing footage! I played at .75 speed. And muted audio. Everything they did in this crafting factory is/was amazing. These men and women. I don't even think our precise factories of today are as good as this. These people had a freedom we don't have today, yet they were indentured slaves. Working for pennies on the hour.. Not having half the luxuries we have today. And they have all died, and have passed away. Remember, watching at .75 is better. Although you could try .50. And you can stop for the reads of the text. Such an interesting video, and I had fun watching it! I feel sorry for all these people. ❤️✔️

More research and dialogue with a new sound score. The footage is fantastic. Nice to look at the past. thanks.

The making of the propellers is amazing!

wonderfully authentic film please may we have more. I LIKED the music......thought it was rather haunting

Music makes me want to commit hairy Krishna, or possibly hairy Houdini ( and yes I spelled " hairy" correctly). A clarinet and bongo drums is a terrible thing to waste.

That engine into a wood frame!!😳 Water cooled!!!😳😳 Wow,copy mashinetools!..this movie is an amazing historical document! 👍💕thanks

I loved this wonderfully interactive art film and the historic content is amazing. It is also great to see precision fabrication without the use of DRO equipment. Thank you for the thrilling entertainment and the edifying exposition!

I love the music, Jazz is clearly an acquired taste as is fine wine. It’s not for everyone, but died love to add it to my collection.

Years ago I built a 1/3 scale model of a 1918 Sopwith Pup. Quite a few of the pieces and assembly processes are similar.

The background music was interesting. Thank you for including it in the video.

That was amazing to watch, I didn't realize there were so many women working in factories back then. The only African Americans I could see were working in the food service area. I was impressed by the sheer volume of people involved in the manufacture one airplane, also hand saws were used to fell massive trees. The look on the people's faces as they were being filmed going into the cafeteria was entertaining also. No one cared about Personal Protection Equipment back then it seems. I noticed there were power poles but probably not much of the country had electricity back then. The guy filming the airplanes with his hand-cranked camera made me laugh. I did feel a little melancholy after I realized everyone in the film has passed.

The sound track is fantastic. Forget the haters. The video is amazing. I built models, a wood ultra-light framed up just like these planes, and a metal biplane.

That was cool film the music was a bit strange it’s amazing how fast they built those buildings and infrastructure and a lot of it still stands Thanks for your posts

Wow…what a gem of a video! 👍🏻👍🏻

Thank you for posting this fascinating documentary. As others have stated, the music selection could have been more appropriate to the content, but I am grateful that you made the effort to present it here.

For those of us that look at aviation history to today, this is an excellent video A+++

Somehow I found the included soundtrack perfect for this amazing film. Who are the musicians? Thanks for both. I'm a woodworker and this was mesmerizing.

Hi Pump Screwdrivers in 1918 Wow Interesting film. Thanks

When aircraft were hand made using non powered tools and elbow grease. Amazing footage

Awesome video, love the jazz, set the mood for the first apocalypse

I imagine this music was from a Norwegian death metal band that was trying their hand at jazz.

Cherry and spruce - what a great combination - don't know where this looped version came from but you can hear "Chenrezig" on Don Cherry's 1975 album "Brown Rice"

super quality for a 100 year old film, people back then can read a lot faster than me.

Super ! en voyant ce reportage j'ai appris beaucoup sur la réalisation de certaines pièces !

Still processing the fact of two men sawing down a big ass tree with a handsaw.. Great video!

FANTASTIC bit of history!

The music reminds me of MIles Davis, am I the only one that liked the music? Great video!

Things I will remember: the pleasure on the face of the profile checker on the prop blades; The woodworker chiselling the rough bit near the propellor boss; the superb pieces of art -the finish of those wooden airscrews as they placed them on the prop shaft; the total lack of safety cages around machinery-the women by the spinning belts and the smoothing of the prop blades by eye(!) with that long long belt. What a film!

X^D I muted this video and YT'd "silent movie incidental music" and played that in another tab. MUCH better!

Great dacumentry how humen been working hard all aspects of history to make machines which can kill same kind even better than ever

Dubbed how to build your flying wooden pallet and garden fans. It's incredible how people can create things out of the available materials and perfecting the construction process of machines.

Actually, this is a great example how the audio track influences what we see. A jazz-collage transforms a dull black-and-white documentary into a surreal experience and something completely new. Phillip Glass' "La Belle et la Bete" (silent movie and live performace) was actually less interesting than this experiment... my only complaint would be that timing/tempo of the sound track could better match the action. Does anyone know who or what we are listening to?

Great video. If you could, please leave text on screen longer, it would be appreciated. Thanks for posting.

Indeed! I am reminded of several years ago when I was attending speed reading class....

Really fascinating look at aircraft production from growing in the forest to flying! I would have liked the titles to be long enough to read, but the visual content outweighed the need to stop and read! However, the sound track was nothing short of horrible! Silence would have been far superior!

good film. loved the music.

Really interesting video, thank you for uploading. Superb music (tough shit for all those know nothing lovers of all types of children's music); who do we have to thank for it ?

A real insight into aircraft construction in the very early days of military aviation,the crowded factory working conditions and hand crafted parts made by skilled workmen and lots of female labour,no regard for safety back then with whirling propellers and people everywhere,probably one of the best that I have personally seen.

Please upload the whole thing again. But please with another or without music. That is an impertinence !!!

So many hats. So many ties. The sound track is haunting. What is the music?

Love the video .... but the music ... why ... really why that ? ? ? ? we actually ended truly watching a silent movie ... that music was sickly torturous .

bellissimo filmato per un vecchio aeromodellista costruttore dei suoi modelli come mi ritengo ancora io ,poter constatare che non hanno propio niente di diverso dai nostri modellini se non le misure .Incredibile vedere il pantografo per le eliche nel 1018, le donne tappezziere con il martello calamitato e i chiodi in bocca le cale (sagome ) per la curvatura dei listelli fantastico Complimenti

Well I enjoyed the music, and very interesting video.

Great and educational video! Strange music.

The film is tedious without any sound track. For me, personally, I like the added audio. It’s different. I love seeing how much glue was used, and the lamination, steam bending, etc. Hardly a bolt or wrench in sight. Many of the guys wearing neckties while doing shop floor work. A different era, with work ethic driven by pride and personal satisfaction rather than union work rules.

All these folks just going about their day, a day like the one before & the one after, the camera just happening to catch them on this particular day. Quickly forgetting about this event, living their lives and fading away. And here we are, a hundred years later looking at them on everyday technology they could never of imagined.

That shows skilled labor!

Amazing film . Never saw before anything like it!

About 90% of the info contained here was lost because there was not enough time to read captions. Please re-edit this and provide enough time to read the captions!

Very cool. Growing up I knew a guy who had been in the Army Spruce Brigades during WWI. He may very well have been shown during the logging scenes. Rip Red Snyder.

Notice that there is hardly an overweight or obese person among them.

When I first became a pastor in the 1980s, there was an elderly woman in the congregation who had worked in the Bristol factory in England during World War 1. She had photographs of herself stitching fabric onto what I took to be a Bristol Fighter.

What is the music? It's great.

I need to have the soundtrack immediately! Where can I pull this?🙃 I love this music!

So beautiful handcrafted skill to kill so many 😪 Amazing video, no robots, but chewing gum was there with the welder guy on the exhaust 😂

With a name of “souper noodles”, I knew this was going to be interesting.

The video is really great ...but the music is down-right stupid!

Great video and I really dig that Saxophone.

Amazing how a good number of the men doing physical labor jobs were wearing nice shirts and ties.

Just imagine ...delivering a mustang to them....It would be stripped down in hours and production flat out within a month. wonderful video thankyou

Granted, the music is odd for the documentary, but it IS tribal and transcendent, appropriate for man's ongoing struggle to get along with himself. I didn't mute the track.

Imagine working as a logger or sawmill operator during this era. The changes to come in only a few decades in the lumber industry was huge too. 30 years later airplanes were no longer wood airframes and air speeds were more than double what they were for WWI The speed of technology advancement was seemingly faster than anything else.

Interesting to consider that the sons and daughters of these fine skilful people may have built B29s twenty five years later...

Working on a biography of world-famous forester Ellwood Wilson who worked from Quebec on this very program to help supply the needed spruce. He toured these factories and because of this soon applied these planes in Canada from the U.S. Navy for pioneering forestry management and fire control. Would not be surprised if I spot him if I slow this down. Can you supply the front and back of the film as to title, sponsor, etc. He also traveled to Oregon on this project, likely locale for the tree cutting operation also run by the Navy for this very purpose. These 'flying boats' were used in anti-submarine warfare.

Awesome find! Wish I could read the text boards, I gave up on trying to catch and pause. And I dig the music, too. Hands down better than copyright free euro-techno drivel.

I've done a little bit of this during my A&P courses at Parks College in 1964. That's when they were still covering a few airplanes with dope and fabric. The rib stitching and spar splices sure looked familiar. It brought back a lot of memories. Thanks for a great video.

The written script rocketed by. Couldn't find half of them when paused. I gave up.

I enjoy watching videos of days past wherever they came from. I keep thinking that those people are no more.