This silent film uses intertitles to provide information about the production of nylon stockings at A. Booth and Sons Ltd factory at Ilkeston in Derbyshire:
'The Managing Director Arrives' - The managing director drives into the factory car park in his Rolls Royce.
'Wages Office' - Women working at desks in an office
'General Office' - Women at desks in an office typing or writing. A man stands with his back to the camera in the middle of the office.
'Fashioned Knitting Machines' - Line of knitting machines. Includes an operator set up a machine and an operator with an apprenctice (?) checking the machines.
'Seamless Knitting Machines' - Banks of machines producing seamless hosiery
'Seaming Fashioned Stockings' - Women working on seaming machines. This is followed by shots of women quality checking stockings.
'Seaming Seamless Stockings' - Women seaming, quality checking and 'shaving' the excess off the stocking.
'Electronic Examining Machines' - a women using the examining machine which involves pulling a stocking on to a mould that, when checked, is sucked down a tube.
'Tea Break' - female workers in the canteen and a woman having her finger nails filed.
'Warehouse' - mainly women but also a man folding stockings and putting them into packets. Also includes further quality checking on a light box with a transparent conveyor belt. Ends with a shot of tables stacked with boxes.
'Goods Being Dispatched For Dyeing' - A Lindley & Lindley (Nottingham) truck leaves the factory yard.
'Another Delivery of Modern Machinery' - A knitting machine being manoeuvred into the factory.
'Home Time' - Workers leaving factory (in colour)
Next, (without an intertitle) we see shots of the Mayor of Derby and other dignitaries arriving in the factory's car park and entering the factory for a tour. This is followed by shots of the dignitaries' parked cars and the visitors being shown the workings of the factory.
'Welfare Activities' - Features a cricket match (in colour) then b/w of table tennis, bar billiards, snooker, carnival floats leaving the factory and a football match.
'Sports Day 1954' - Features egg and spoon race, netball and colour shots of people riding donkeys and driving skills.
'Christmas Dance 1954' - B/W shots of people in eveneing dress at a bar and at tables followed by a switch to colour and shots of the dance (with a live band) with Santa in attendance.
Then, (without intertitles and in black and white) we see more shots of men playing snooker, several families posing for the camera (taking part in a treasure hunt for motorists), men fishing and then another visit, this time by the actress Jill Bennett who tours the factory floor. Finally we see shots of the female machinists at work in the factory. One is seen buying a bottle of Coca-Cola from a vending machine.
No credits specified
Clip courtesy of Derbyshire County Council.