Paper Making / Just Kids (Glove Making) / Hooping Up (Barrel Making), Part 1 Part 3
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The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Paper making machinery in operation. “Voted dry by 280 degrees.” Dryer - machinery. “The old laborious way of making paper.” Costumed worker takes paper out of press, displays it - modern paper making machinery. “Finishing.” “Cutting, sorting, trimming, and counting.” “A number of sheets pasted together and pressed under 60 tons pressure, then dried, makes cardboard.” Worker feeds paper into machine - machinery in operation - workers remove paper from machine - washing, drying. “Making book covers.” Assorted machines in operation. “Plater room.” Women workers stack sheets of paper. “Envelope making.” Envelope making machine in operation. “Ready for use.” Worker packaging stationery - (unrelated footage: ice-boating on frozen lake). [1919] b. “Some are made of pigskin, some of horsehide, while others are just kid.” Worker displays leather. “Rolled in wet cloths to make stretching easier.” “Fine hands wear fine gloves, these are made mostly by hand.” Workers stretch and cut leather. “Everything’s done very simply -- right handed men make right handed gloves, left handed men do what’s left. Cutting by hand die.” Worker cuts leather with die. “Machine cut.” “Nothing wasted -- the little pieces are used between the fingers and the thumb.” Glove’s anatomy.” Cut pieces displayed. “Where a stitch in time makes several hundred gloves.” Women workers at sewing machines. “Making a glove.” Worker sewing pieces together, tries on glove. “Re-turned.” Worker turns fingers of glove - cutting with die - sewing. “It takes an iron hand to do this work.” Worker places lining, then glove on model of hand. “Wristlets.” Sewing cuff on mitten. “Cutting pasting and sewing cuffs together.” Gauntlet cuffs. “Binding edge and sizing seam of cuffs.” “Every chauffeur wears them.” Finished glove. “Appearance is everything, so the gloves are placed on steam heated forms.” “Pressing cuffs.” Pressing and polishing. “Putting a little snap to the gloves.” Attaching fasteners. “A winter’s supply.” Table full of gloves - inspecting. “They might not look it, but really they’re ‘Just kids.’” Skating pond, couple has snowball fight. [1919] c. “The Oak tree renders the most preferable wood for barrel making.” Felling large tree. “No barrel can be longer than its log. These are cut into desired lengths.” Worker cuts log with power saw. “A barrel is a chunk of air, all bound round with staves and hoops. Splitting the logs for staves.” Quarter splitting by hand - trimming and final cutting by power saw - stacks of staves - bending in a press. “Staves are given the air for seven months in which they dry. Then they dry in a kiln for two weeks after which they are shipped.” “A barrel has flat ends. These are made just like the staves.” Cutting wood - stacks of drying wood in yard - workers stack wood - worker puts pieces of wood together for tops - saw cuts round tops. [1919]
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