Sewing Machines - Old And New (1960)

M/Ss of a young woman in Victorian costume sitting in a room with Victorian decor, sewing some embroidery by hand; on a table to the right is a hand-operated sewing machine. C/U of the embroidery as she sews; M/S as she sits and sews, then puts her work to one side and starts to sew a piece of fabric on the machine. Commentator says “In 1835 this hand-operated machine was the last word in modern design“. High angle M/S then C/U of her sewing on the machine, her hand guiding the fabric through and the other hand turning the handle. C/U of a smaller sewing machine; a man’s hand comes into shot to start spinning a small wheel to operate it; M/Ss and C/Us as he picks up the machine from a display table to show it to a girl in modern dress. C/Us of another machine, ’Prima Donna’, made of cast iron with a circular work table. M/S of the man and girl as they move along the table to the next machine, a portable machine weighing only 4lbs “for running repairs“ that was popular in the 1890s; C/Us as he demonstr