York Knitting Mills (silent)

Description: Examination of improved work methods operating industrial knitting machines in a mill setting, featuring female and male workers.

York Knitting Mills Ltd.
Hosiers Division, Spinning Division, Zimmerknit Division

A.T. Reid Co. Ltd.

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Subjects: Industry; Capitalism; Labor; Manufacturing

Tags: yarn; industrial textile machinery; women factory workers; hosiery; textiles; sewing machines; time and motion studies

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Ralph M. Barnes

Credits: Industrial Engineering Film Library, University of Iowa, Iowa City.
This Film used in Connection with Courses in Industrial Engineering Given By Ralph M. Barnes.

Work Simplification Program
York Knitting Mills Ltd.
Woodstock - Ont.
J.D. Woods & Co., Ltd.

A.T. Reid Co. Ltd.
Toronto Ontario

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Prelinger Archives

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: [1944]

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Geographical Location: Ontario; Canada; Toronto; Hamilton, Ontario; Woodstock, Ontario

Genre/Form: industrial, research

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: positive

Color: b&w

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Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: triangle square

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 402