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Spinning Your Future

What’s new in textiles? This recruitment film aims to tempt teenagers to work in their local Courtaulds mill.

Documentary 1967 17 mins

Overview

“For Courtaulds - to show what’s new in Lancashire’s textile industry”: this recruitment film aims to tempt teenagers to work in the local mill. How could they resist “a textile industry that still has all the friendliness of the old, now joined to the excitement and opportunity of the new”?

Director

Walter Storey

Featuring

David Tattersall

Genres

Documentary

Country

United Kingdom

Location

Lancashire

Language

English

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