| GIANT CONVEYOR CARRIES BALES A MILE Good shots of cotton processing in United States of America. | ||
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| Tape Master: | 5134 | |
| Catalog #: | 366420 | |
| Clip Number: | 366420-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | ON 107 A | |
| Timecode: | 01:35:57 - 01:37:36 | |
| Location: | USA | |
| Year Shot: | 1918 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | FARMING: Fiber, Cotton INDUSTRY: Textiles LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA | |
| Description: | Agriculture; technology. Some great film of Cotton processing in the USA; ca 1918; including a new labor saving invention for transporting bales. Opens with shot of 2 men walking between cotton stacked up to their shoulders. Then shot of a row of machines - part of cotton gin - ejecting pieces of cotton into metal containers. CU one of these openings with small cotton balls shooting out. Lines of white men standing at tables inspecting cotton. Then pan across large lot full of cotton bales in bags; with cards attached to them. Workers hook bales to a huge conveyor which then lifts the bales up a slope. Shot of the conveyor coming out of the building -- it looks like a ski lift. CU of bales moving on the conveyor; upward; while on the other side more bales move in the opposite direction. "The overhead conveyor carries the bales a distance of one mile; thereby saving the work of over 100 persons." Shot of the conveyor supported by a tall trestle like a bridge. Then another shot; the conveyor up on its series of supports in BG; while in FG a boat in a river. Industry. Textiles; machines; mechanization; automation; mill | |
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