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Title: PURE NEW WOOL - AND SCOTTISH

Reference number: 0571

Date: 1924*

Production company: [ Scottish Woollen Trade Mark Association]

Sound: silent

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 6.00 mins

Description: From sheep shearing in Australia to wool being spun and woven into cloth in Scottish tweed mills.

Credits: Trade News Service of America presents through Motion Picture Arts Inc.

This film is presented through the Industrial Department YMCA (possibly spare leader?)

Shotlist: Credits (.26); Sheep shearing in Australia. Shots of sheep in pens and men in shearing sheds clipping the animals (.40); - Whence the "clip" is transported to the mills in Scotland. Wool sorting, scouring and drying. Men at bench sorting wool by hand. Another man feeds wool into machines (1.10); Oiling and teasing. Shots of machinery (1.28); Carding. Lengths of wool being carded by machine (1.59); Thus rendered uniform and homogenous, the wool is wound on spools and transferred to the spinning shed. Shots of rows of spindles (2.13); - Where it is tied, drawn and spun into yarn. Shots of various machines, young boys operating machinery. (2.33); Reeling. Shots of woman supervising machinery (2.52); Warp-winding, warping, beaming and weft-winding. Shot of people feeding wool onto various machines (3.31); Weaving. Shots of machines (3.44); Examining and finishing. Shots of women inspecting cloth as it passes through machinery (4.16); Stamping the guarantee of the Scottish Tweed Manufacturers on the cloth. Girls stamp a corner of the cloth. Shots of the trade mark (4.54) Inspector examines the finished cloth, bales covered and squashed flat, sewn up in big bags (5.06); Horse pulls cart full of bales out of the yard (5.10); So guaranteed, I cross the border for distribution to woollen merchants, tailors and costumiers throughout the world. (5.28); Man sitting in chair reading a newspaper, sees an advert for "Scottish tweeds" and gets up (5.39); Shots inside ladies' costumier. "Yes, but what guarantee have I that the material is pure new wool?" Assistant shows the customer the Scottish Woollen Trade Association mark on the inside of jacket (5.55); To obtain genuine Scottish tweeds, order "with the trade mark" - the collective guarantee of the Scottish tweed industry. Shot of the trademark (6.02)