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'Jute making in Scotland' 35mm film DUNIH 459

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'Jute making in Scotland' 35mm film

Film, 35mm, black & white entitled 'Jute Making in Scotland' featuring 24 stills of the jute process, dated 29/10/1952. Film produced by educational 'Joint Production Committee alongside The Scotsman Publications and the British Jute Trade Federal Council. Stored in a metal container label on lid reads "Joint Production Committee, Jute making in Scotland".
Images include:
1. Title reading 'A JPC Filmstrip The Weekly Scotsman present Jute Making in Scotland'
2. View of Dundee from Law Hill showing the jute mills and smoking chimneys
3. A bale of raw jute being unloaded from a ship
4. Jute being loaded onto jute barrows for preparation
5. Raw jute going into a softener machine at the Docks
6. Barrows of raw jute being weighed and put through a carding machine
7. Man moving rolls of jute that have just come off a carding machine
8. Jute from spinning frame being stored in sliver cans
9. Spinning frames
10. Woman working on a spinning frame
11. Woman working on a cop winding machine
12. Woman shifting bobbin on a spool winding machine
13. Men working on beaming machine which prepares the beam for the loom (produces the warp yarn)
14. Beams being prepared
15. Preparing the beam for weaving
16. Weaving on flat looms
17. Women working in a circular loom shed
18. Woman checking the finished woven material coming off the loom
19. Three men using a calender, a machine used in the finishing process to press cloth
20. Two women sewing jute sacks
21. Man hand stamping patterns onto carpets
22. A machine attaching jute backing to carpets
23. Jute testing
24. Title, 'Produced by the JPC with the co-operation of The Scotsman Publications Ltd and The British Jute Trade Federal Council'.

Number: DUNIH 459
Name: 'Jute making in Scotland' 35mm film
Date: 1953-10-29
Maker: Scotsman, The
Maker: British Jute Trade Federal Council
Location: In Store