Cotton

Cotton Encyclopaedia Britannica Blacks picking cotton, CU cotton bolls. White farmer & son walking thru field; CU of bolls that son picks & strings out. Two Black men dragging long sacks & picking bending over; women working & children picking. Weighing sacks as whites watch. Loading into wagon & shaken out of sack. Son rides out of field on load. 20:15:05 Cotton picking machine on tractor moving thru field & vacuuming cotton into screened container. 20:15:34 Prairie Gin on side of building; truck arrives w/ load of cotton & pipe moved in to suck up the cotton from the truck. Int. w/ cotton gins working taking seeds out, dropped into pile; cotton thru pipe to large bin. Cotton from bin into large pressed bales, turned on turn table & wrapped w/ metal bands. Bales rolled out to loading dock, then loaded onto railroad freight car by hand truck. View of freight train past. 20:18:15 HA of large textile mill. Bales unloaded & into warehouse, straps cut & cotton into machine to loosen it up. From there to the picker machine which loosens more & rolled onto pole, then to a carder which combs & straightens cotton fibers. CU strands coming out of carder, then into machine which draws it out into thing strands & winds onto spools. 20:20:05 View down spinning machines & CUs drawing out & making finer yarn. Full spindles repaced w/ empties. Woman at large machine that draws lines for cloth & large room w/ weaving machines. MCU of looms working & woman attending. Shuttle. 20:21:52 HA women folding cloth from looms for packing. Finished cloth wrapped & packed by women. Putting finished cloth onto train; freight cars leaving across road crossing. Educational Films; Instructional Films; Industrial Process; Manufacturing; Racism; Poverty; Segregation; Working Women; Rural Americana; Post-WWII; 1940s; 1946;