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WWII - 1944, USA Homefront: Cotton Mill and Textile Factory

Reel Number: 221335-03

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1944,1940s

Country: USA

Location: South

TC Begins: 05:18:20

TC Ends: 05:23:07

Duration: 00:04:47

WWII - 1944, USA Homefront: Cotton Mill and Textile Factory LS & MS of textile mill. Side w/ three floors, many windows & large fans. All white employees of all ages leaving. Some women put up sun umbrellas & some men put on hats. 05:20:41 Black men wheeling large bales of cotton on long loading dock w/ factory buildings visible. Black man & white man weighing bale. 05:21:39 White men rolling rolls of cloth on hand trucks out of building. 05:22:19 White woman working amidst many bobbins of thread, threads feeding past camera at high speed. Southern Textile Industry; Segregation. WW2 Homefront; South; NOTE: some soft focus

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