Making Cotton Clothing

Making Cotton Clothing Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc. 16:45:02 Summertime, women & children walking along wide sidewalk in small town. Girls look at window display of clothes. GOOD. 16:45:22 Hand sketching young girl’s dress; pattern. Woman at drawing board w/ town seen from window behind her. Compares w/ cloth for assistant who cuts out pattern, pins to cloth & cuts out parts. 16:46:17 Designer at shelf pulling trimming. Pieces of cloth to dressmaker at sewing machine & CU stitching together, hand sewing buttons. MS & CUs. Designer enters & gets dress from seamstress. 16:47:20 Factory manager & pattern-maker looking at dress; makes pattern. Cloth pulled by manager. 16:48:01 Cutting room & cloth spread out from carrier down long table back & forth. Man traces pattern on long paper; cloth back & forth into stack & cut. Pattern paper put over cloth. 16:49:25 Cutter w/ electric cutting machine through layers; removes pieces. CU manipulating knife. 16:50:21 Cloth pieces to punch press “the ‘girl’ (woman) puts a sharp piece, like a cookie cutter, on the cloth...” MCU of collars. Cutter finishing. Women bundling them; moving to sewing room. Many women aka “girls” working at rows of sewing machines. MCU women sewing, cutting, feeding pieces thru machine. CUs. 16:52:20 Overhead shot of four machines sewing; CUs of machine trimming & sewing. Buttonhole machine stitching & cutting button holes. CUs Machine attaching buttons. 16:53:27 Woman picking up finished dresses; inspecting; moved to chute & women remove, ironing. Putting on hangers & racks removed for packing. 16:54:23 Folding & packing into cartons for shipment. 16:54:33 Montage: girl opens carton & looks at new dress. Holds up. Wearing while play hop scotch on sidewalk, sliding down slide, waiting for school bus beside road, boarding, up school steps. The End. Manufacturing; 1946; 1940s; Dresses; Garment Workers; Tailoring; Economics; Post-WW2; Post-WWII; Americana; Daily Life; Games;