"THE WORLD'S WOOL" 1949 WOOL PRODUCTION DOCUMENTARY NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA & ENGLAND 66074

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This 1949 Gaumont-British Instructional film shows viewers the process of wool production, from harvesting wool from sheep at a wool station in New South Wales to manufacturing it into finished cloth at a factory in England. The film opens with a map of the world and identifies where wool is produced in the greatest quantities. A diagram of a wool station in New South Wales, Australia shows the layout of the operation and identifies the different buildings at the station, including the stock yard and the shearing sheds (02:25). Sheared sheep are moved out of a shearing shed and then sprayed (03:35). The hired shearers leave the farm in a truck for another wool station. Rams leave their shed to go breed with ewes (04:32). Men and women fork hay off of trucks in sheep pastures to provide extra feed for the animals (04:55). A windmill brings water up for irrigation and for sheep drinking water. A man soaks the hind quarters of sheep in a solution to kill pests (06:16). Two men examine a new lamb. Shearers arrive at the wool station in the fall (06:48). Sheep are herded to the shearing sheds by men on horses and sheep dogs. The sheep are separated into different pens. A shearer fetches a sheep from a pen and then shears the wool from the animal with his electric shears (07:56). A boy picks up the sheared fleece and puts it on a table. It is then sorted by men and separated between fleece and loose wool, then sorted again based on the quality of the wool. A man unloads bales of wool at a wool store in Sydney (09:42). Viewers see men bid on wool at an auction house (10:02). Bales of wool are loaded onto a freight ship bound for England. The bales are unloaded at the docks in England (11:18). Footage shows the bales being moved into a wool mill. The wool is moved through a washing machine and then onto a conveyer belt. The cleaned wool is formed into what strands called “slivers.” The wool slivers are combed into finer strands (13:08), then they are stretched by another machine. A woman oversees strands of wool as they are put onto bobbins (13:47). Electric looms weave the wool. Two men examine the woven wool cloth (14:30). The film concludes with a shot of a woman at a fabric store examining the finished wool cloth. We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: "01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference." This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com

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