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The World's Wool (1949)

1949 · Short film · 15 min

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This 1949 Gaumont-British Instructional film shows viewers the process of wool production, from harvesting wool from sheep at a wool station in New South Wales to manufacturing it into finished cloth at a factory in England. The film opens with a map of the world and identifies where wool is produced in the greatest quantities. A diagram of a wool station in New South Wales, Australia shows the layout of the operation and identifies the different buildings at the station, including the stock yard and the shearing sheds (02:25). Sheared sheep are moved out of a shearing shed and then sprayed (03:35). The hired shearers leave the farm in a truck for another wool station. Rams leave their shed to go breed with ewes (04:32). Men and women fork hay off of trucks in sheep pastures to provide extra feed for the animals (04:55). A windmill brings water up for irrigation and for sheep drinking water. A man soaks the hind quarters of sheep in a solution to kill pests (06:16). Two men examine a new lamb. Shearers arrive at the wool station in the fall (06:48). Sheep are herded to the shearing sheds by men on horses and sheep dogs. The sheep are separated into different pens. A shearer fetches a sheep from a pen and then shears the wool from the animal with his electric shears (07:56). A boy picks up the sheared fleece and puts it on a table. It is then sorted by men and separated between fleece and loose wool, then sorted again based on the quality of the wool. A man unloads bales of…

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Running time
15 minutes
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Ephemeral Films

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