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Cotton Production in Uganda, 1950s - Film 1000393

This film is available to license from our website at Huntley Film Archives, by searching for film 1000393 in our Film # search bar: https://www.huntleyarchives.com/ Cotton production in Uganda Africa 1950's and its cotton manufacture into cloth in Lancashire mills UK. Close up view of fluffy buds on cotton plants. Stills of sketches depicting how cotton has been used in ancient Egypt and India. A baby is wrapped in a cotton blanket in its basket. Close up of tractor tyres and shoes on the ground. A man carries a tent bag through a camping site. Mill with thread being spun. Black and white women in a row walk towards the camera. They are wearing cotton dresses fashionable in 1950s. World map with cotton growing areas marked. Africa map with Uganda marked. A cotton crop. Local people in tribal dress sit cross legged on the ground working animal hides, leathers. Workers hammering tree bark to create a pliable fabric. Planting cotton seeds by hand. Thinning young shoots by hand. Flower on a cotton plant. A closed bulb. An open bulb with fluffy contents. Field of cotton. Black workers pick cotton. A little boy puts a handful of cotton in a large bowl. Women picking cotton. Woman carries a container of harvested cotton on her head. Sorting cotton; a family sit outside their hut sorting by hand. A sack of cotton is weighed. Man makes notes in his book. Pile of sacks are moved. Sacks are untied on the back of a truck and unloaded at the ginnery. Factory floor of the ginnery. Close up of seeds attached to the fluffy cotton fibre. Machine that does ginning. The separated seeds in a sack. Glass bottle of oil sitting on a table cloth. Block of margarine in a glass dish. Cow with flies on its face. Sack of fertiliser. Cotton coming out of the ginning machine. A black worker dumps armfuls of ginned cotton into a pile. Panning view across Kampala skyline. View of Lint Marketing Board offices. Cotton sample is unwrapped. Inspection and quality grading. Fibre length checked. Cotton auction, buyers bidding and auctioneer hits his hammer. Trucks fully laden leaving a factory. Barge transport on a river. View of cargo and people aboard the barge. Railway head. Cranes move cargo. Rail carts being loaded. Freight train travelling through the countryside. Cotton testing and research. Pest infected bulb is opened to reveal a grub. Test crop being planted by hand. Machine planting. Truck transporting cotton with a lone man sitting on top of the cargo. Barge on river. Train. Freight train filmed from track level as it passes the camera. View overlooking Mombasa port, Kenya. View looking up at a crane as it hoists bags of cotton. Side of a ship State of Bombay. Bales are lowered into the hull of a ship. Dockside views of ships leaving dock. Uganda. People cycle along a tarmac road past some houses. Views of new housing, a clinic or rural hospital and a school building. Children in playground. A group of young school girls run towards the camera in their simple dress uniforms. Lancashire England and a view over mills. Inside a cotton mill, women supervising machinery weaving cotton. Close up views of looms at work. Man inspects a patterned fabric coming off a loom. Examples of woven fabrics with different patterns. An artist is hand painting fabric. Models on the cat walk at a fashion show wearing a smart coat and hat and a ball gown. Models wearing a highly patterned summer frocks and evening wear. Overhead view of a model in a bridal gown. Final view of a cotton bud that has burst open. Huntley Film Archives is a film library holding tens of thousands of films. The large majority of the films are documentaries. Films cover a wide range of subjects and production dates range from the 1890’s to the 2020’s. As with all libraries we make no judgement on the content of our holdings and make them available for educational purposes for all to see. Films may have content or express opinions some may think inappropriate or offensive, but it is not the work of a library to censor educational resources. Films should be viewed with historical objectivity and within a context relevant to the times in which they were produced