Silk Makers of Japan

Duration: 600 ft.

Year Published: 1961

Creator: Bailey Film Associates (BFA)

Complete Record: cu Japanese family, mulberry leaves, man with basket gathers mulberry leaves, a man chops mulberry leaves with machine, caterpillars, caterpillars on trays, “silkworms” actually caterpillars, cu Caterpillar, eats, man with hat picks mulberry leaves, cu caterpillars- white, man places caterpillars on rice straw mat, man places caterpillars on wooden racks, caterpillar spins cocoon of silk, girl sits by tray of caterpillar cocoons, caterpillar turns into a moth, old Japanese woman spins silk, woman operates hand loom, weaves silk, Asian women sort balls of silk, wet cocoon and agitator on machines, raw silk processing factory, various stages, silk made into scenes, 3 pretty Japanese girls walk down street, volleyball players, 2 girls play ping pong, eat soup from bowls with head caps on, traditional Japanese family, female factory workers pack “books” of silk, silk bales loaded onto truck, silk tested at Japanese government lab, antiquated, obsolete testing procedures, silk plucked by factory workers wrapping bales of silk with bags and matting, stencil NY via Panama, silk, woven into cloth, mechanical loom, finished cloth of silk inspected, silk making old and new methods, nature and man, corny narrator, geisha’s with silk, kimonos on posing, silk the queen of fabrics, Japanese women bow