- Title: F-5063
- Summary: COTTON: FROM FIBER TO FABRIC: THE COTTON INDUSTRY. MANUFACTURING. ILLUSTRATES IN DETAIL THE EVOLUTION OF COTTON AND THE VARIOUS TREATMENTS GIVEN COTTON FABRIC TO MAKE A TEXTILE WITH SPECIAL CHARACTERISTICS. GIVES A BRIEF HISTORY OF COTTON, FROM ITS BEGINNING IN INDIA AND EGYPT, STRESSING THE IMPORTANCE OF COTTON IN THE WORLD ECONOMY TODAY. EXPLAINS THE NUMEROUS TESTS AND FINISHING PROCESSES APPLIED TO COTTON IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THE MANY SPECIALIZED FABRICS. SHOWS THE DIFFERENT WEAVES AND FINISHED FABRICS THAT ARE MADE FROM COTTON. TIME LAPSE FOOTAGE OF PLANT GROWING. COMES OUT OF SOIL, GROWS BLOSSOM BLOOMS. COTTON FORMS. LEAVES MOVE ABOUT. "BOLL" OF COTTON MATURES. PUFF OF COTTON, LOOKS LIKE CLOUDS. HUGE BALES OF COTTON. FABRIC BEING MANUFACTURED. SWEATSHOP. WOMEN SEWING GARMENTS, CLOTHES. TAKING COTTON BOLL APART. SEEDS IN COTTON. THREAD BEING AUTOMATICALLY WOUND ONTO SPOOLS. FACTORY. ANIMATED CROSS-SECTION OF FIBERS OF COTTON. COTTON CROP. FIELD OF COTTON. PLANE SPRAYS CHEMICALS ON FIELD. DDT SPRAYING. BOLLS OPEN READY FOR HARVESTING. MANY FARM MACHINES HARVEST THE COTTON. DUMPED INTO TRUCK. TAKEN TO COTTON GIN MACHINE. SEEDS AND FIBERS SEPARATED. ROLLING BALES OF RAW COTTON. COTTON MERCHANT CHECKS SAMPLES. CU HANDS PULLING APART FIBERS. SENSITIVE MACHINES TEST STRENGTH AND OTHER CHARACTERISTICS. WOMAN WORKS AT SCIENTIFIC MACHINES. SPINNER. CUTTING BURLAP MESH FROM COTTON. PUT INTO MACHINES TO MIX AND FLUFF. COME OFF MACHINES IN ROLLS. CARGO OF COTTON LOADED ONTO OCEAN LINERS. PUT INTO STRANDS-COMBING MACHINE. COTTON BEING PROCESSED IN FACTORY. WOUND ONTO BOBBINS. SPUN INTO YARN. HUGE SECTION OF YARD PUT INTO MACHINE TO BE DYED. BEING WOVEN INTO FABRIC. AUTOMATIC WEAVING LOOMS. COTTON MILLS. TEXTILE ARTIST DRAFTS DESIGNS. PATTERNS. USING ROLLERS TO PRINT ONTO FABRIC. TRACED DESIGN IS ENGRAVED ONTO ROLLER. DYE WASH. BLEACHED FABRIC. STEAM ROLLED. PROCESSED IN MANY DIFFERENT WAYS. CHEMICALLY TREATED. KNITTED INTO FABRIC BY SPINNING MACHINES. UNDERWEAR FABRICS MANUFACTURED. ABRASION TESTS. HIGH WEAR. STRESS TESTS. STEEL STRUCTURE OF SKYSCRAPER. WET COTTON. TENSILE STRENGTH. CLOTHES IN WASHING MACHINE. IRONING CLOTHES. TOUCHING SOFT COTTON FABRIC. CHEMIST PUTS TOGETHER MOLECULE MODEL. CHEMICAL STRUCTURE. MEN WORK IN SCIENCE LAB DOING EXPERIMENTS. TEXTILE CHEMIST. PUTS FABRIC INTO CHEMICALS. ROLLERS. CU CRUMPLE PIECE OF COTTON. STAYS IN BALL. SPREAD OUT, STILL HAS NO WRINKLES. TREATED FABRIC IS NON-WRINKLE. HEATED FABRIC. TREATED TO BE WATER-REPELLENT. STEAMS THROUGH. SPOT RESISTANT FABRICS. POURING LIQUIDS ONTO FABRIC SAMPLES. RINSED OFF. COMPOUNDS. TEXTURE ON FABRIC. MAN WRITES ON CLIPBOARD CHART. COTTON PLANTS. DISPLAY OF FABRICS. SHEER FABRICS. SEERSUCKER. GROWER LOOKS AT COTTON BLOSSOM. INSPECTS. CHEMIST.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1961
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1960s
- File Name: F-5063