| DUNLOP SPORTS SHOES - WATCH THEM MADE AT LIVERPOOL How Dunlop tennis shoes are made - various processes. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6758 |
| Catalog #: | 433805 | |
| Clip Number: | 433805-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | EP 193 | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | Liverpool, Merseyside | |
| Year Shot: | 1930 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | FASHION: Shoes & Boots | |
| Description: | DUNLOP SPORTS SHOES - WATCH THEM MADE AT LIVERPOOL Tennis shoe factory, incl. many scenes of teenage girl workers. How Dunlop tennis shoes are made - various processes. Liverpool, Merseyside MS factory worker standing by machine, pulling large flat pieces of "crepe rubber" off a big roller. MCU same. Pan upward on more machinery, w/ more rollers. CU white canvas on roller. CU machine cutting shoe sole shapes in rubber. MCU worker pulling the cut pieces out of the rubber, working at fast speed. Another machine: stretched canvas fabric being pulled into machine. CU blobs of soggy rubber are dropped onto the canvas and are flattened out by long thin roller. MCU woman worker pulling cut out half-oval pieces of canvas through machine. WS crowded room full of women workers at sewing machines. (nice shot of workers) MCU young woman at sewing machine, sewing narrow trim on canvas upper. MCU the woman shaping canvas around mold. Girl workers on the assembly line: shot looking down long table with girls standing on either side; the girls take the molds from a track which moves slowly down the center, and put the shoes back on it when they've done their part of the work. MCU another girl working, putting rubber trim round the edge of the sole. MCU girl putting on sole?. MS girl taking shoes off conveyor belt and hanging them on a rack. Cool shot of a rack of shoes rolling into a round tunnel; young male workers walk out close round door. MCU man standing in front of a few different gauges. MLS man walks onto platform next to the "great vulcanizing cylinder" - which handles 4000 shoes at once. Finally, MLS woman playing tennis. MCU her feet jumping; she is of course wearing Dunlop tennis shoes. | |
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