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Cotton : [incomplete]

Item number (ISN):

18459

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1927

Item number (ISN):

18459

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Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

ASSOCIATED SCREEN NEWS LTD.

Accession:

1973-0127

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 3

Production date:

1927

Production company:

Associated Screen News Ltd.

Production credit:

photography, Roy Tash

Sponsor:

Dominion Textile Company

Description:

Film about the making of fabric. The factory shown in the film is not identified but the intertitles mention the brand names Colonial sheets and Magog Fastest Fabrics. The footage shows: the printing and dyeing of cotton; burning the fuzz off fabric; machinery in a factory; drying cloth; finishing cloth; bed sheeting made into bolts of cloth for sale; the Colonial brand logo; Colonial sheets; factory workers sewing sheets; men and women at work in the factory; white goods packed in wooden cases; workers making designs for printing on cloth; printing plates; the printing of cloth; bleaching; cloth printed with the Union Jack coming off a printing press; the steaming and washing of cloth after printing; women workers cutting swatches of cloth and affixing them to sample books for use by the sales department; and a woman modelling cloth. <13mn 15s>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Original number:

A-672

Notes:

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1. Opening title and closing credits missing.~2. Embattled Shadows, p. 225 says that this was a feature-length film shot by Roy Tash for the Dominion Textile Company.~3. Canadian Feature Film Index 1913-1985 indicates that this is part 3 of the 1930 three reel version.~4. Canadian Feature Film Index 1913-1985 indicates this film was re-edited in 1930 to a three reel version. ASN production number A572.~5. Roy Tash died in 1988.~6. Assuming Tash to be the creator of this film, copyright will expire on this material in 31 December 2038.
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8211-0007

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Donor restrictions:

No donor restrictions.

Copyright status:

Under copyright until 31 December 2038.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: Dominion Textile Company.

Reproduction access:

To be Determined / À déterminer

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