This film is part of the Bradford College Collection and consists of footage from a wool carding and processing factory. It follows the processes that are carried out to turn the wool from dirty and torn product into clean threads ready for use. The film opens with shots of recently sheared wool, stacked up in sacks and in piles in a shed. A man carries armfuls of the wool over to a pit in the ground and drops it into it. The next shot is taken from above and looks down onto a conveyor belt...

This film is part of the Bradford College Collection and consists of footage from a wool carding and processing factory. It follows the processes that are carried out to turn the wool from dirty and torn product into clean threads ready for use. The film opens with shots of recently sheared wool, stacked up in sacks and in piles in a shed. A man carries armfuls of the wool over to a pit in the ground and drops it into it. The next shot is taken from above and looks down onto a conveyor belt which brings the wool over to a drum which shunts the wool along and separates it. Following this, the wool goes into a large vat of water where long, metal spikes stir the water and then the wool comes out of the machine looking much cleaner and more refined. On another machine the wool is passed up a vertical conveyor belt where mechanical carding machines pull the wool apart even more. It comes out of the machine in small bundles and is passed down into a pit in another machine. The next shots are taken from the front of a machine where the wool is passed out in threads and combined to form a long, thick strand; this in turn is passed onto a conveyor belt where it joins the wool from the other machines. This goes through a funnel and ends up in barrels.