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This silent black and white film outlines home economics classes for primary and secondary school children focusing on cooking, baking, sewing and domestic duties.
Title: “Homecraft in an Otago school.”
Pan across: School buildings and classrooms.
Intertitle: “A Knowledge of First Aid is Useful”.
General Views: School girls in pinafores practising wrapping bandages around hands, heads and legs.
Intertitle: “Care of the Sick”.
General Views: School girls in nurse uniforms making bed.
General Views: School girl in nurses uniform taking temperature and checking pulse of female patient in bed.
School girl in nurses uniform delivering breakfast in bed to female patient.
Intertitle: “Special Attention is Devoted to Such Aspects of Home Life as These: A. The Baby B. Care of Our Clothes, Removal Of Stains, Washing, Ironing, Mending”.
General Views: School girl washing and drying large baby doll.
General Views: School girl making up cot, placing baby doll in cot and tucking in blankets.
General Views: School girls inside classroom cleaning spots and stains from table linen. Clothing being hand washed in metal buckets.
General Views: School girls inside classroom practising sewing.
Intertitle: “The Girls Learn to Construct Garments”.
General Views: School girls measuring and cutting patterns.
General Views: School girls in classroom working at sewing machines and ironing fabric.
Intertitle: “Effects of Various Diets are Carefully Studied”.
General Views: School girls in classroom preparing food for white rats in cages (Happy and Stumpy) - rats are placed in pots and weighed on scales, results are plotted on graph.
Intertitle: “A Popular Branch of the Subject”.
General Views: School girls cooking and baking in classroom
General Views: Plate of biscuits being put in table for examination by teacher.
Intertitle: “Even the Boys are able to Share”.
General Views: School boys in classroom cooking and baking.
Intertitle: “Housewifery duties are Included”.
General Views: School girls polishing cutlery, mopping floors and dusting.
Intertitle: “Meal Preparation and Service”.
General Views: School girls laying tablecloth and setting table.
Intertitle: “The Proof of the Pudding”.
General Views: School girls eating at dinner table.
End Title: “The End”