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What is Cloth?

Reel Number: 221706-01

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1948

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 20:00:04

TC Ends: 20:10:23

Duration: 00:10:19

Titles. 20:00:23 Housewife using sewing machine - daughter Nancy home from school, sits down to learn about different cloth MOS - samples of wool, cotton & rayon laid out. 20:01:28 Mother shows how to burn threads to identify type of cloth - magnifying glass used. VO explains different odors on burning, & identifying warp & filling threads. 20:04:10 CU book on textiles. Nancy looks through sample cloth to use in new skirt. Magnified fibres & different weaves. Cotton napping. 20:08:32 Nancy & mother looking at washed clothes - VO re correct methods of laundering different cloths - shows how to iron wet rayon w/ CU iron gauge. 20:09:41 Washing hanging out to dry. 20:09:54 Nancy shows mother her chosen fabric for skirt - “...Nancy will think about warmth, wearability and washability”. The End. 1940s Stereotypes; 1948 Home Economics; NOTE: One continuous minute sold at per reel rate.

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