Fashion's Favorite

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Fashion's Favorite is a short film from 1940 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.

Opens with a shot of an hourglass which leads into a montage of various household appliances and then moves into a discussion of how DuPont "makes life more liveable." The rest of the film tracks the manufacturing of rayon from raw material to finished product. Many nice shots:

Scene of men working in labs. CU beakers, chemicals, microscopes, etc. Scenes of men reading meters and operating vats to wash raw rayon product. Scenes of women participating in fabric-making process (and inspecting too) Nice shots of various types of rayons in bolts and draped over tables on display for the camera. Many good stock shots to be logged. Oblique shot of dial telephone being dialed Cars driving down New York avenue

Trucks and cars on main street of rural village (upstate New York?) good

Fashion's Favorite
Produced byCaravel Films, Inc.
Production
companies
Caravel Films, Inc.
Distributed byCaravel Films, Inc.
Release date
1940
Running time
31:00
LanguageEnglish
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