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DetailsOriginal Format: 16mm Colour: Black & White Sound: Silent Duration: 2 mins 50 secs Credits: ICI, Imperial Chemical Industries,Billingham Film Unit Genre: Industrial
Subject: INDUSTRY women WORKING LIFE
Summary Billingham Film Unit work motion study of women workers on packing production line at ICI Billingham, and men unloading and stacking full bags. Some slow motion of women workers.
Description
Billingham Film Unit work motion study of women workers on packing production line at ICI Billingham, and men unloading and stacking full bags. Some slow motion of women workers.
Title: Packing Fertilizer in Polythene Sacks
Women workers dressed in dungarees and wearing turban scarfs go to their working stations on a packing production line at ICI Billingham.
various views record the women at work hooking sacks up on the automated packing machine.
Geeral views of the production line...
Billingham Film Unit work motion study of women workers on packing production line at ICI Billingham, and men unloading and stacking full bags. Some slow motion of women workers.
Title: Packing Fertilizer in Polythene Sacks
Women workers dressed in dungarees and wearing turban scarfs go to their working stations on a packing production line at ICI Billingham.
various views record the women at work hooking sacks up on the automated packing machine.
Geeral views of the production line conveyor.
Close-up of woman at work fixing sack to machine.
Close-up of part of the machinery.
Slow motion footage of women on the production line.
Fertilier sacks drop off the conveyor line. Men workers collect them and stack them.
Credit: Produced by the Billingham Film Unit
Credit: ICI logo
Context Frank B. Gilbreth developed work analysis films between 1910 and 1924 showing a number of industrial operations from which the motion study technique was developed.
