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How Textile Mills Are Modernizing (1948)

1948 · Ephemeral film · 25 min

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How electricity can modernize textile mills. Great shots of cotton mills, processing and textile manufacturing; technical narration laced with industry jargon. In Technicolor. Shotlist How electricity can modernize textile mills. Great shots of cotton mills, processing and textile manufacturing, with technical narration laced with industry jargon. workers making industrial and commercial fabric older woman going thru fabric in fabric store (critical eye) Title: Trend 1: MODERNIZATION (hand turning page in front of camera) Lighting, materials handling, air conditioning, power distribution system Switching engine from Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Co., Amsterdam, N.Y., pushing a Nickel Plate RR freight car Trend 1: Modern Mill Conditioning GS old industrial air conditioning plant cotton processing machines, combs combing yarn Drawing of cotton fibers women operating spinning mills Machinery in weave shed 2 women inspecting finished products Because of AC, ÒThereÕs no millroom fever here and morale is high.Ó Women working in room on looms Man inspecting fabric rolling by for defects Man operating huge loom Old material handling method: African American men pushing bales of cotton into place, using handtruck New method: African American worker on forklift lifting bale onto stack Overhead conveyor carrying lap into pick room Men working with electrically controlled hoist in dye room Electrically controlled blending line system electrical distribution apparatus: lines, transformers, etc.…

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Running time
25 minutes
Collection
Prelinger Archives
Internet Archive item
0333HowTextileMillsAreModernizing

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