Metadata
WORK ID: NEFA 22347 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
C.M.L. | 1930 | 1930-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: 9.5mm Colour: Black & White Sound: Silent Duration: 4 mins 32 secs Credits: County Model Laundry Ltd Genre: Promotional Subject: Working Life Women |
Summary An amateur promotional film for the Country Model Laundry Ltd of Jesmond Road in Newcastle upon Tyne. The film shows the all-women workforce busy in the laundry. |
Description
An amateur promotional film for the Country Model Laundry Ltd of Jesmond Road in Newcastle upon Tyne. The film shows the all-women workforce busy in the laundry.
Title: C.M.L.
Credit: A VRUKFU Production
Title: Send your washing to The County Model Laundry Ltd.
Title: The County Model Laundry Ltd. Jesmond Road Newcastle-on-Tyne
The promotion begins with a brief montage of the industrial size laundry machinery.
Title: The mighty force of To-day …
A washer turns in a giant tub of soapy...
An amateur promotional film for the Country Model Laundry Ltd of Jesmond Road in Newcastle upon Tyne. The film shows the all-women workforce busy in the laundry.
Title: C.M.L.
Credit: A VRUKFU Production
Title: Send your washing to The County Model Laundry Ltd.
Title: The County Model Laundry Ltd. Jesmond Road Newcastle-on-Tyne
The promotion begins with a brief montage of the industrial size laundry machinery.
Title: The mighty force of To-day …
A washer turns in a giant tub of soapy water. A woman worker is seen from above dwarfed by one of the giant machines. Another quick montage of working laundery machinery follows.
Title: Machinery
Automated metal cones churn the washing in a metal cylinder. Soapy water seeps out.
Title: Soiled garments are washed by this powerful machinery. The metal cones churn up the water. A drum washer revolves. Rollers are connected by long belts. Soapy water seeps out.
Title: The process continues …
General views follow of three women workers sorting through wet laundry, surrounded by the metal machinery. Laundry is hand-scrubbed by another group of workers. A woman feeds laundry into the washer machine.
Title: Gallons of water are for ever flowing …
Water pours into the machines. A woman continues feeding dirty laundry into the giant tubs. Perforated drums turn. A fast montage of machinery in operation illustrates the process. A woman feeds collars into a press. General overhead view of woman at the pressing machines.
Title: Linen is pressed.
A woman feeds linen carefully into the automated press. Large sheets are folded after emerging from the press. In another part of the laundry women are ironing linen by hand. Other workers are hanging towels and using a hot anvil to de-crease the linen. Various shots of the laundry production line.
Title: Experienced hands are working ceaselessly
More general views of the busy laundry workers follow.
Title: Airing is carried out in a specially constructed room.
All types of clean laundry hangs from rollers in the airing room. A woman starts to sort through pressed laundry.
Title: All work turned out is of the very highest order.
Brief shot of women ironing.
Title: So why not send your washing to …
Title: THE COUNTY MODEL LAUNDRY LTD.
Title: Either the Auxiliary Service or the High Class Service is at your disposal.
Title: Write, call or phone at once to the COUNTY MODEL LAUNDRY LTD., Jesmond Road, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Tel. Jes. 235
Title: C.M.L.
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