Those Army Blankets! (1940)

Titles read: “THOSE ARMY BLANKETS!“ Yorkshire. Various shots show the process of making the average Army blanket. C/U of a sheep. Piles of sheep wool are fed into machines to clean and refine it. It emerges from a carding machine and is spun into thread. The thread is woven into large lengths of blanket fabric on machinery. The material goes through another machine for a final clean. Girls in floral overalls measure and cut the blankets into regulation lengths. A government inspector checks the measurements and weights of the finished blankets which are then wheeled off in bundles on trolleys. Good shots of girls at work on large machinery at a mill. Name of the mill could be ’Braithwaites’ (name seen on C/U of blanket label). FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British