# 1930s CLEVELAND OHIO, DOBECKMUN CELLOPHANE BAG MANUFACTURING FILM 52904

Made by Dobeckmun, a leading manufacturer of cellophane bags for the retail industry and one of the great companies of 1930s Cleveland, Ohio, MAKING DRESSING OF SHIMMERING TRANSPARENCY is a silent industrial film highlighting the company and the city in which it resides. This rare color film begins with images of downtown Cleveland from the air (actually, a skyscraper roof) before showing the city from a "motor car" ( 1:25 ). At 1:43 the Dobeckmun Company plant is seen, and then interior shots showing reception areas, the company switchboard, credit department, factory floor, dentist office and infirmary, and more. Dobeckmun (short for Dolan, Becker and Munson -- the co-founders) made cellophane bags and cigar pouches, and you will see the steps to create them shown in the film (including a potato chip bag sample sent in the mail at 6:50 ). The company was the first in the USA to have a laminating process for cellophane, and had branch offices around the USA, and a second factory in Berkeley, California. The factory shown may have been the one located at 3301 Monroe Street in Cleveland. Dobeckmun was bought by the Dow Chemical Company, which owned the license of cellophane in the USA, in 1957. Dobeckmun also developed a product called Lurex, a non-tarnishable metallic thread used in fabric, and zip tape, the cellophane strip used for opening packages of chewing gum and cigarettes. This may very well be what is seen at the 13:23 mark "threads of beauty". Cellophane is a…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/52904MakingDressingsOfShimmeringTransparency)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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