Full record for 'KNITTING WITHOUT TEARS'

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Knitting made easy in the 1950s with the ‘Knitmaster’ automatic knitting machine. (clip) [74958404]

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Subjects:

  • Arts and crafts

Genres:

  • Advertising

Decade:

  • 1950s

Title: KNITTING WITHOUT TEARS

Reference number: 1030

Date: 1956*

Sponsor: SCWS

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 3.00 mins

Description: An advert for the "Knitmaster", the Co-op's knitting machine.

For further information see "The British Co-operative Movement Film Catalogue" compiled and edited by Alan Burton 1997.

This was originally catalogued as KNITWEAR WITHOUT TEARS but corrected to actual title during Lottery Project 2006.

Shotlist: [No credits] [BBFC certificate] Advert for the "Knitmaster", the Co-op's knitting machine. Takes the form of a conversation between two housewives in a living room, one lady demonstrating the benefits of the machine. Shots of the garments that can be produced using the machine. Knitmaster. See a demonstration at your local Co-operative Society [Commentary: "It's fifty times faster on a knitmaster"] (3.00)

[NB. sound is out of sync with picture]

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