Silk Weaving (1947)

Unissued / unused footage - dates and locations may be unknown / unclear. Cuts for newsreel 47/80 - Silk Weaving. Braintree, Essex. Various shots of the spinner and weaver who will make the silk for Princess Elizabeth’s wedding dress seen at work. Peggy Lynn works at a spinning machine. Ron Lamb operates a loom, moving the shuttle with his hands and the treadle with his foot. Peggy cuts silk thread and winds it onto spools. Good shots of the machinery at work. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content fr