How Textile Mills Are Modernizing
How Textile Mills Are Modernizing is a short film from ca. 1948 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
How electricity can modernize textile mills. Great shots of cotton mills, processing and textile manufacturing, with technical narration laced with industry jargon.
VS workers making industrial and commercial fabric MS older woman going thru fabric in fabric store (critical eye) Title: Trend 1: MODERNIZATION (hand turning page in front of camera) Lighting, materials handling, air conditioning, power distribution system Switching engine from Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Co. , Amsterdam, N.Y., pushing a Nickel Plate RR freight car Trend 1: Modern Mill Conditioning GS old industrial air conditioning plant VS cotton processing machines, combs combing yarn Drawing of cotton fibers MS women operating spinning mills Machinery in weave shed 2 women inspecting finished products Because of AC, There s no millroom fever here and morale is high. Women working in room on looms Man inspecting fabric rolling by for defects Man operating huge loom Old material handling method: African American men pushing bales of cotton into place, using handtruck New method: African American worker on forklift lifting bale onto stack Overhead conveyor carrying lap into pick room Men working with electrically controlled hoist in dye room Electrically controlled blending line system VS electrical distribution apparatus: lines, transformers, etc. MS man inspecting electrical distribution units in cabinets MS man operating switch gear on low-voltage system Man in suit pointing out features of electrical distribution system Title: Trend 2: POWER AT THE POINT OF USE VS tools with individual electric motor drives, no central drive belts VS knitters (knitting machines) CU yarn winder in operation Rayon spinning machine powered with individual motors Operator running rayon yarn spinning machine Two-for-one twister shown in laboratory of manufacturer Animation showing individual motor powering double-twist spindle Engineer measuring tension and twist with tensometer (good) GOOD MANUFACTURING AND ENGINEERING SHOTS here Title: TREND 3: HIGHER CONTROLLED SPEEDS. VS spinning frames Animation: adjustable control maintains spinning tension at maximum safe level Full-fashioned hosiery knitter with electronic brain regulating its speed changes Pan down woman s skirt (long) to hosiery, showing seams in back ( very well constructed the hose, that it) CU knitting machine knitting nylon stocking (seamfree) in 17 minutes Woman operating machine, collecting stockings and replacing supply of yarn Woman operating new warper drive, handling delicate filament electronically Man operating slasher drive with amplidyne generators CU rollers on slasher machine Woman operator loading bobbins on machine CU man s arms and hands setting up machine VS Rug-weaving (Axminster loom) in operation, powered by electronic drive New weaving machines in operation Title: Trend 4. FINER QUALITY CONTROL. Vacuum card stripper blade moving by camera Modern pin-drafter leveling out and reducing fibers Woman operating machine masking worsted yarns VS Photoelectric eye inspecting cloth, seeing skew and setting it true (weft-straightening) Man operating this machine Stroboscopic lights used in cloth inspection, appearing to make weave stand still Modern batcher drive Dye jig, electrically powered tension controlled by electric motor VS Woman operating spectrophotometer to inspect dye color CU rotating graph paper on above machine CU Electronic tensile tester pulling swatch of fabric apart (good) Women operating this machine Air orifice thickness testing man running this machine Title: TREND 5. NEW PROCESSING METHODS Infrared radiant heating CU two infrared bulbs in front of textile samples Man in T-shirt moving rolls of fabric for shipment Pan over blended cotton-rayon fabric things Woman fondling fabric sample Animation of blended fabric process CU woman s legs and shoes exiting car (good) Title: TREND 6. CONTINUOUS PROCESSING. Animation of line of machines, control switch, and finger pushing switch Animation of compensating gate tightening and loosening fabric tension Animation of electric eye sensing fabric tension Animation of fabric passing thru belts Red cloth passing thru dyeing rollers Recap of themes with white super titles as before over images
Zooms (five of them) into old-fashioned fabric patterns (great)| How Textile Mills Are Modernizing | |
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| Produced by | Wolff (Raphael G.) Studios |
Production company | Wolff (Raphael G.) Studios |
| Distributed by | Wolff (Raphael G.) Studios |
Release date | ca. 1948 |
Running time | 25:09 |
| Language | English |
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