THE GOLDEN FLEECE: MODERN METHODS OF MANUFACTURING NEW ZEALAND WORSTED UNDERWEAR

Rights Information
Year
1935
Reference
F7926
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1935
Reference
F7926
Media type
Moving image
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
In-House
Duration
0:08:48
Production company
Sound Films Productions
Credits
Commentary: Martin Evans
Producer: Jack Welsh

Filmed at the Roslyn Mills, shows the processes involved in the manufacture of woollen underwear. Initially sheep are shorn, and their wool is scoured, combed, and spun at the mill. Following on is each stage of the knitting and shaping of underwear garments and finally their packaging and dispatch.

“NZ Government Publicity. New Zealand’s woollen industry photographed in Hawkes Bay. The homestead, sheep grazing, rounding up the flocks, putting the sheep into the yards, (sheep entering the shearing shed, shearing, fleecing the wool, pressing the bail, the looms). Weaving a rug, the finished rug.” - (from NFL Archive Screening notes)