| FIBRE FROM FLAX Educational film showing how textiles are made from flax. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6577 |
| Catalog #: | 488054 | |
| Clip Number: | 488054-4 | |
| Orginal Film: | DOCUMENTARIES | |
| Timecode: | 01:27:52 - 01:31:26 | |
| Location: | England | |
| Year Shot: | 1940 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | FARMING: Fiber INDUSTRY: Textiles LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England | |
| Description: | "Scutching" is process where flax is fed into a machine which separates the fibres. Graphic animation of this process. The flax is crushed and rolled to extract water (?) Women collects the flax which emerges from the other end of the machine. She makes the flax into rolls. Several women work at spreading out the fibres. C/U of rolls of flax. A woman opens trap doors in the floor and passes down the bundles of flax. On the floor below bundles are loaded on to a trolley then stacked. Bundles are loaded into sacks. Panning shot of large number of sacks. | |
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