Football Ball Manufacture Aka Football Story (1956)

C/U of a football being kicked; M/Ss of a group of Arsenal players heading the ball to one another and displaying ball-skill dexterity on Highbury football pitch; commentator mentions players like Captain Cliff Holton and internationals (David) Bowen and (Derrick) Tapscott being household names; Dennis Evans may also be seen among the players. M/S in a factory in South Norwood, London, where footballs have been made since 1891; although not mentioned by name it is Webber Bros. Ltd. A man is seen rolling up large sheets of leather, then he takes a roll to a cutting machine, spreads it over the cutting board and cuts out numerous oblong panels from it. A large pile of panels is placed before an elderly man, 70-year-old Joe Kidd sitting astride a wooden bench. He takes one panel and stretches it over the bench with the aid of some pincer/plier-type tools. C/Us of this process. M/S of numerous men in a workroom who are stitching the panels together by hand; C/Us of a man stitching the inside-out panels;