Accession number:
1931.0007Production Years:
1929 to 1931Languages:
- English
Film Properties:
- 35mm
- Silent
- Black and White
Length (feet):
951 (35mm)Length (minutes):
11Holding Institutions:
Library and Archives Canada: 35mm.
"This film describes how mattresses are manufactured. Shots include: labourers picking cotton on a plantation in the American South (the intertitle refers to African-Americans as 'darkies'); bales of cotton being transported by truck, Mississippi steamboat, and Canadian Pacific railway to a Simmons factory; cleaning the cotton and forming it into batts; making bedsprings out of tempered steel wire; automated looms making covers; putting mattresses together and sewing parts of them by hand; a staged sequence in which a well-heeled woman gets into bed, takes off her jewellery, and turns out the light."
Bibliography:
Motion Picture Distributors and Exhibitors of Canada, Canadian Motion Pictures 1914-1932 (June 1932), 5.