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Beautyrest
Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1931Item number (ISN):273927Link to related resource:Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:ASSOCIATED SCREEN NEWS LTD.Accession:1973-0127Media:FilmOriginal title:BeautyrestPart:1 of 1Production date:1931Production company:Associated Screen News Ltd.Production credit:photography, Roy TashSponsor:Simmons LimitedDescription:This film describes how mattresses are manufactured. Shots include: labourers picking cotton on a plantation in the American South (the intertitle refers to African-Americans as "darkies"); bales of cotton being transported by truck, Mississippi steamboat, and Canadian Pacific railway to a Simmons factory; cleaning the cotton and forming it into batts; making bedsprings out of tempered steel wire; automated looms making covers; putting mattresses together and sewing parts of them by hand; a staged sequence in which a well-heeled woman gets into bed, takes off her jewellery, and turns out the light. <10mn 30s>Language:Silent with English intertitles -
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