- Title: SC-85
- Summary: A LADY'S CASTLE: A FILM ABOUT THE COTTON INDUSTRY.
- Description:01:12:01 - AFRICAN AMERICAN BLACK FARM WORKERS PICK COTTON IN FIELD. COTTON PICKERS. AGRICULTURE. 01:12:09 - MEN PICKING COTTON SMILE. 01:12:19 - CU COTTON PLANT FLOWER. 01:12:44 - CU COTTON ON PLANT. 01:12:54 - MORE COTTON PICKING SCENES. HORSE DRAWN WAGON FULL OF COTTON IN BACKGROUND. 01:12:59 - MS TWO BLACK CHILDREN IN COTTON FIELD. COTTON PICKERS, ONE WITH WIDE BRIMMED STRAW HAT. 01:13:09 - LS FARM WORKERS HAULING SACKS OF COTTON THROUGH FIELD. 01:13:14 - COTTON PICKERS EMPTYING SACKS OF COTTON. HUGE PILES OF COTTON. WEIGHING. CABINS IN BACKGROUND. 01:13:24 - WORKERS AROUND BARN WITH BALES OF COTTON. HORSE DRAWN WAGONS. 01:13:34 - WORKERS USE TUBE PIPE TO SUCK UP COTTON IN WAGON INTO HOPPER. 01:13:44 - CU CIRCULAR SAWS OF MECHANIZED COTTON GIN. COTTON, FREE OF SEEDS, BEING SHOT OUT OF MACHINE. WORKER, FARMER GRABS SOME COTTON. 01:13:49 - WORKERS PULLING COTTON FROM BACK OF MECHANIZED COTTON GIN. 01:13:59 - CU HANDS HOLDING COTTON THAT HAS BEEN THROUGH GIN (SEPARATED FROM SEEDS, LEAVES, ETC.) AND COTTON THAT HASN'T. 01:14:04 - COTTON DROPPING INTO A PRESS BOX. BLACK FARM WORKER PULLS LEVER, MACHINE PRESSES COTTON INTO A BALE. 01:14:34 - STACKS OF BALED COTTON OUTSIDE READY FOR SHIPMENT. HORSE DRAWN WAGONS. WORKER HAULS BALE OUT ON HAND TRUCK, HAND CART. 01:14:54 - MEN EXAMINING, LAYING OUT ON TABLE TAGGED SAMPLES OF COTTON. 01:15:04 - MORE OF SAME. DETERMINING GRADE AND QUALITY OF COTTON BY PULLING IT BETWEEN FINGERS. MAN WITH BOOK TAKES NOTES. CU HANDS HOLDING SMALL SAMPLE OF COTTON. 01:15:09 - CU SAMPLE OF MATURE COTTON OF LONG FIBER. 01:15:14 - WORKERS HAUL BALE OF COTTON INTO OPENING ROOM AT COTTON MILL. THEY DUMP IT. 01:15:24 - WORKER ROLLS COTTON UP AND PUTS IT INTO A BALE BREAKER MACHINE. 01:15:29 - COTTON, BROKEN UP AND FURTHER CLEANED OF SEEDS, ETC. ROLLS OUT OF MACHINE. CONVEYOR BELT. 01:15:34 - WORKER IN COTTON MILL, FACTORY, REMOVES LARGE ROLL OF COTTON CALLED BATTING FROM MACHINE. HE REPLACES LARGE ROD, SPOOL, CARRIES ROLL OF COTTON BATTING AWAY. 01:15:49 - WORKER LAYS ROLL OF COTTON ON MACHINE WHICH ROLLS, EVENS OUT COTTON. 01:15:54 - CU MACHINERY WORKING. 01:15:59 - WORKER IN FACTORY, COTTON MILL TAKES ROLL OF COTTON BATTING OFF OF MACHINE, WEIGHS IT ON SCALE. 01:16:04 - CU PENCIL POINTING AT NUMBERS ON SCALE. 01:16:14 - WORKER TAKES ROLL OF COTTON OFF OF SCALE. 01:16:19 - CU NEEDLES OF MACHINERY USED IN PROCESSING COTTON. 01:16:24 - COTTON AS A FINE WEB BEING FED THROUGH MACHINE, PASSING OVER, UNDER ROLLERS. 01:16:29 - MAN BLOWS ON COTTON WEB, BREAKING IT WITH HIS BREATH TO SHOW HOW FINE IT IS. 01:16:34 - CU HANDS PULLING COTTON FIBER APART. 01:16:44 - STRANDS OF COTTON FIBERS BEING RUN THROUGH MACHINE'S ROLLERS. 01:16:49 - SIMILAR SHOT AS STRANDS ARE COMBINED INTO ONE. 01:16:59 - CU HAND PULLING COTTON FROM CLOTH PAD. 01:17:04 - STRAND OF COTTON FIBER PASSING THROUGH ROLLERS OF MACHINE. 01:17:09 - COTTON FIBERS TWISTED BY MACHINES AND WOUND AS YARN ON BOBBINS. HAND POINTS. PULLS BOBBIN OFF, UNWINDS SPOOL OF YARN. 01:17:24 - COTTON FIBER STRAND PASSING THROUGH ROLLERS OF MACHINE. 01:17:29 - CU SPOOLS, BOBBINS (OF COTTON YARN) OF VARIOUS SIZES. 01:17:39 - MACHINE SPINNING BOBBINS OF COTTON INTO FINE YARN. WORKER PRESENT, ADJUSTING MACHINERY. CU MACHINE, BOBBINS. 01:17:49 - COTTON YARN WOUND THROUGH MACHINE ONTO HUGE SPOOL. 01:17:59 - WORKER BESIDE HUGE SPOOLS OF SPINNING COTTON YARN. 01:18:04 - CU SPOOLS RECEIVING COATING OF ADHESIVE SUBSTANCE, THEN DRYING OVER STEAM HEATED DRUMS. 01:18:09 - CU COTTON THREADS PASSING THROUGH MACHINE, BEING WOUND ONTO HUGE SPOOL. WORKER WITH MACHINE, SPOOLS. 01:18:24 - WORKER ADJUSTING MACHINE. CU VARIOUS SHOTS THREAD MANIPULATED THROUGH MACHINE. 01:18:39 - WORKER ADJUSTS COTTON AS IT IS FED THROUGH MACHINE. 01:18:49 - CU BOBBIN OF COTTON THREAD BEING INSERTED INTO SHUTTLE OF MACHINE. 01:18:59 - CU HAND BY MACHINE DEMONSTRATES BROKEN THREAD DURING WEAVING PROCESS. 01:19:04 - MORE CLOSE UP SCENES OF WEAVING PROCESS. 01:19:09 - CU SLOW MOTION SHOTS OF MOVEMENT OF SHUTTLE. 01:19:19 - SAME NORMAN SPEED. WEAVING COTTON THREAD INTO FABRIC. 01:19:39 - SCENE OF WEAVING ROOM. COTTON MANUFACTURING. COTTON LOOMS. SWEATSHOP. FACTORY. 01:19:49 - FILM ENDS.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1930
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1930s
- File Name: SC-85