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1947 - Educational Films, USA: Making Shoes

Reel Number: 221278-06

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1947,1940s

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 08:13:48

TC Ends: 08:24:02

Duration: 00:10:14

Titles. 08:14:02 Interior: shoe factory. Men unroll & inspect leather, calfskin. 08:14:40 Cutting room, workers using machines to cut leather for uppers & cloth linings. Women, most wearing kerchiefs, sorting uppers & liners. Trimming, pasting or glueing & sewing leather to linings. CUs. 08:16:37 Shoes stitched in steps, folding while stitching. Machine makes holes & places metal eyelets for laces. Women workers finishing off uppers, machine strings eyelets. 08:18:02 Man w/ wooden shoe lasts. Man makes insoles. Men at machines tacking upper to insole. 08:19:35 Machine sewing welt to upper. Soles attached, trimmed, stitched, rolled & finished. 08:21:10 Heels attached by machine, shoes sanded & hand finished. 08:22:08 Row of women clean & polish shoes mounted on pivoting “foot”. 08:23:12 Shoes laced, inspected & boxed by women. 08:23:54 The End. 1940s Industry; manufacturing; shoemaker; shoemaking; factory workers; 1947; Educational Films; Industrial Process; Craftsmanship; NOTE: Any one continuous minute sold at per reel rate. Good coverage of machines & workers in MLS & MS as well as CUs.

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