- Title: VM-283
- Summary: BEHIND THE SCENES: FEMALE FACTORY WORKERS
- Description:02:10:58 - MANUFACTURING BUBBLE GUM IN FACTORY: WORKERS POURING HUGE CONTAINER OF POWDER INTO VAT. INDUSTRIAL MIXER MIXING INGREDIENTS INTO HUGE MASS. 02:11:38 - WORKER CUTS OFF CHUNK OF GUM & ROLLS IT IN SUGAR. PLACES IT INTO KNEADING MACHINE 02:11:46 - WORKER MEASURES LONG STRIP THAT COMES OUT PRESS & CUTS IT INTO BLOCKS WHICH OTHER WORKER COLLECTS 02:11:52 - FEMALE WORKER COVERS GUM BLOCKS IN POWDER & FEEDS IT INTO PRESS 02:12:00 - HUGE FLAT SHEETS OF GUM GOING THROUGH ROLLERS & BEING COLLECTED BY WORKERS 02:12:15 - WORKERS RECEIVES SHEET OF GUM FROM ROLLER THAT HAS BEEN CUT INTO "5 FOR A NICKEL" SIZE 02:12:28 - FEMALE WORKERS BEND & BREAK BRITTLE SHEETS OF GUM INTO SMALLER & SMALLER SIZES 02:12:55 - MACHINE AUTOMATICALLY WRAPS STICKS OF CHEWING GUN 02:13:11 - MAN RECEIVES SLABS OF GUM THAT HAVE BEEN SCORED BY MACHINE 02:13:31 - ECU MACHINE ATTACHES FILAMENT IN LIGHT BULB FACTORY 02:13:40 - WORKER WITH NEEDLE-NOSE PLIERS & TWEEZERS FORMS COIL FILAMENT FOR 1,000 WATT LAMP. MAKING LIGHT BLUB BY HAND 02:14:19 - GLASS TUBING FUSED ONTO BULB BY MACHINE 02:14:30 - ASSEMBLING BULB TO MOUNT. FIRST SOFTENED BY HEAT, THEN FORCED AGAINST FLANGE BASE TO WHICH IT IS LIQUEFIED 02:14:46 - CAREFULLY REMOVING BULB FROM ASSEMBLY LINE MACHINE 02:14:59 - CU HAND HOLDING BRASS BASE OF LIGHTBULB 02:15:03 - MACHINE LINING INNER EDGE OF BRASS BASE WITH CEMENT 02:15:09 - CU BASE FILLED WITH CEMENT 02:15:12 - WORKER PUTS BASE ONTO BULBS 02:15:19 - SOLDERING LEAN-IN WIRES TO BASE 02:15:25 - TIME SQUARE LIT UP AT NIGHT. CHALMERS UNDERWEAR BILLBOARD VISIBLE 02:15:29 - JAMAICAN WOMAN SITTING AROUND OUTSIDE BUILDING 02:15:35 - WOMAN SITTING CHEWING ON CANE 02:15:42 - STREET SCENE OF TOWN IN JAMAICA 02:15:53 - SEMINOLE INDIAN COOKING BREAD IN POT ON OUTDOOR FIRE 02:16:05 - SEMINOLE FAMILY UNDER THATCHED COVERING EATING MEAL 02:16:11 - FAMILY EATING FISH 02:16:25 - DARK-SKINNED MAN WASHES HIS FACE FROM BASIN OUTSIDE 02:16:34 - INDIAN WOMAN USING HAND-CRANKED SEWING MACHINE TO SEW DECORATED CLOTH 02:16:55 - VILLAGERS JUST STANDING AROUND VILLAGE 02:17:19 - SCENIC LAKE WITH MOSSY OVERHANG ON TREES & LILY PADS 02:18:16 - MAN IN WAREHOUSE MOVING AROUND ROLLS OF FABRIC 02:18:21 - MAN PINNING FABRIC 02:18:24 - TESTING FABRIC: CUTS OFF PIECE OF WOOL FABRIC. HITS IT WITH MALLET & WEIGHS IT. COOKS FABRIC IN SCIENCE EXPERIMENT 02:19:00 - MAN PUTS PIECE OF FABRIC IN MACHINE THAT STRETCHES IT TO TEST STRENGTH 02:19:09 - PULLING FABRIC ACROSS TABLE MEASURING & INSPECTING IT 02:19:25 - MONTAGE AS FABRIC IS RUN THROUGH ROLLERS & IN VAT OF WATER AS IT IS SPONGED & SHRUNK IN COLD WATER 02:19:42 - FABRIC DRIED & FOLDED AUTOMATICALLY BY MACHINE 02:19:51 - MACHINE AUTOMATICALLY LAYS OUT CLOTH ON LONG TABLE 02:19:56 - MEN LAY OUT PATTERNS FOR PANTS ON THE CLOTH TO BE CUT 02:20:09 - HUGE FACTORY ROOM FILLED WITH WOMEN WORKING AT SEWING MACHINES 02:20:14 - WOMAN FEEDING STRIPS OF CLOTH THROUGH SEWING MACHINE FOR PIPING 02:20:19 - WOMEN AT MACHINES CREATING BUTTON-HOLE & POCKET 02:20:29 - WOMAN AT SEWING MACHINE SEWING BUTTONS ONTO GARMENT 02:20:34 - WOMAN FIDDLING WITH SCISSORS & PIECE OF FABRIC FOR POCKET 02:20:56 - FEMALE WORKERS WALK PAST. ONE WOMAN STOPS TO HAVE DRINK AT WATER FOUNTAIN 02:21:09 - WOMEN WASHING THEIR HANDS IN BATHROOM AT FOUNTAIN- LIKE SINK 02:21:21 - FEMALE WORKERS IN UNIFORMS WITH TRAYS GETTING FOOD ON CAFETERIA LINE 02:21:33 - LUNCHROOM FILLED WITH WOMEN AT TABLES EATING 02:21:46 - SIGN IN FACTORY: "SAFETY FIRST LAST & ALWAYS" 02:21:50 - WOMAN WORKING AT MACHINES WITH HUGE SPINNING WHEELS. FOREMEN IN OVERALLS WALK AROUND CHECKING THEIR WORK 02:22:00 - WOMAN QUICKLY PUTS METAL PIECE INTO MACHINE & THEN STAMPS MACHINE DOWN 02:22:21 - WOMAN LOOKING LIKE NURSE CARRYS SMALL BOXES OVER TO ANOTHER WORKER AT TABLE. PAN DOWN TO HER SENSIBLE SHOES 02:22:41 - WOMEN WORKING AT MACHINES WITH PROTECTIVE GLASS PLATE BETWEEN THEM & MACHINES 02:23:05 - BLACK WOMEN FOLDING LARGE WHITE SHEETS OF FABRIC AS THEY COME OUT OF ROLLERS 02:23:22 - WOMAN TAKES FLAT BOXES FOR MILKY WAYS & OPENS THEM. FEEDS THEM ONTO ASSEMBLY LINE 02:23:31 - WOMAN GRABS PACKED BOXES OF MILKY WAY CANDY BARS & LOADS THEM INTO MARS BRAND CARDBOARD BOXES FOR SHIPPING. PUSHES THEM ALONG ROLLERS ON CONVEYOR 02:23:45 - CU BULLETIN OF THE WOMEN'S BUREAU PAMPHLET "WOMEN WORKERS & INDUSTRIAL POISONS" 02:23:58 - NURSE SQUIRTS SOLUTION INTO PATIENTS MOUTH IN DOCTOR'S OFFICE 02:24:15 - ANIMATED SLOGANS FOR IDEAL SAFETY MEASURES IN THE WORKPLACE 02:24:57 - WOMAN IN STOCKING FACTORY WALKS UP AISLE & CHECKS ON HOSIERY 02:25:15 - WOMAN SITS IN CONTRAPTION ON WHEELS TO CHECK ON HOSIERY 02:25:41 - CU WOMEN WORKERS HAND-WRAPPING LOLLIPOPS 02:25:53 - WORKER PLACES LOLLIPOPS INTO MACHINE WHICH AUTOMATICALLY WRAPS THEM 02:26:06 - MACHINE SPITS OUT WRAPPED LOLLIPOP FROM CONVEYOR 02:26:19 - TABLE OF GIRLS WRAPPING BOXES OF R.A.J. SODA CRACKERS IN WAX PAPER 02:26:33 - WOMAN PLACES BOXES OF CRACKERS ONTO CONVEYOR. MACHINE AUTOMATICALLY WRAPS BOXES 02:26:48 - WORKERS TAKE BOXES OF CRACKERS OFF ASSEMBLY LINE & PLACE THEM IN CARDBOARD BOXES FOR SHIPPING 02:27:02 - ASSEMBLY LINE OF FEMALE WORKERS AT KELLOGG'S CORN FLAKES FACTORY: ONE GIRL PUTS WAX PAPER LINING IN BOX, ONE SHOVELS IN CEREAL, NEXT WEIGHTS BOX, LAST TWO SEAL BOX & PACKAGE FOR SHIPPING 02:27:18 - AUTOMATED CORN FLAKES PACKING ASSEMBLY LINE 02:27:31 - MACHINE AUTOMATICALLY SEALS BOTTOM OF CEREAL BOX 02:27:39 - MACHINE FILLS BOXES WITH CEREAL 02:27:53 - WORKER CLOSES BOXES 02:28:00 - BOXES TRAVEL UP CONVEYOR WHERE GIRLS PUT INDIVIDUAL CEREAL BOXES INTO LARGER BOXES FOR SHIPPING 02:28:24 - WOMEN FOLDING UP FABRIC & ROLLING UP GAUZE BANDAGES 02:28:37 - MACHINE AUTOMATICALLY CUTS & ROLLS BANDAGES 02:28:51 - BLACK WORKERS SHAKE OUT ROLLED UP SHEETS & FEED IT INTO MACHINE FOR IRONING 02:29:05 - BLACK WORKER FEEDS SHEET INTO MACHINE WHICH STRAIGHTS IT FOR IRONING 02:29:23 - WOMEN WALK AROUND TABLE FILLED WITH PILES OF PAGES. GRABBING PAGE FROM TOP OF PILE. COLLATING PAGES BY HAND IN PUBLISHING COMPANY 02:29:41 - WOMAN PUT PILES OF PAPERS INTO MACHINE WHICH AUTOMATICALLY COLLATES PAGES FOR BOOKS. SORTING MACHINES 02:30:20 - WOMAN SITS AT TYPEWRITER TYPING. OTHER MACHINES IN ROOM AUTOMATICALLY TYPE BY THEMSELVES 02:30:24 - PAPER BEING FED INTO TYPEWRITER SIMILAR TO PLAYER PIANO. TYPEWRITER TYPING BY ITSELF 02:30:32 - SECRETARY TYPES AT TYPEWRITER WHILE OTHER MACHINES TYPE AT SAME TIME. WOMAN GETS UP & LEAVES. AUTOMATIC TYPEWRITERS KEEPS TYPING
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1920
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1920s
- File Name: VM-283