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How Textile Mills Are Modernizing

1948/25 min 10 sec/56 shots

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This 1948 Technicolor industrial film surveys how electricity and automation were modernizing American textile mills. It demonstrates advances in air conditioning, lighting, materials handling, power distribution, individual motor drives, electronic speed and tension controls, quality testing, heating and fabric processing, and continuous production, emphasizing improved working conditions, product quality, output, and cost efficiency.

Provenance and rights

Original producer: Wolff (Raphael G.) Studios
Collection: Prelinger Archives
Original title: How Textile Mills Are Modernizing
Date: 1948-08-12T00:00:00Z
Original link: Open on Internet Archive
Rights: public_domain

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