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Fibre Flax - DVD ONF/NFB


Catalogue Number:  NFB524539
Producer:  National Film Board Of Canada
Producers:  James Beveridge
Directors:  Lawrence Cherry
Producing Agencies:  National Film Board of Canada (Ottawa)
Subject:  Agriculture, Arts, Business Studies, Documentary
Language:  English
Country Of Origin:  Canada
Copyright Year:  1949
Running Time:  11:07


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This film reviews the processes involved in cultivating, harvesting, and spinning flax in Canada. Pioneer ways of gathering and treating the flax before it goes to the mill are compared with modern methods. Scenes at a scutching mill outline the process of breaking and scutching the flax, and of sorting and combing the fiber. Final sequences review finished products from the flax plant: printed linens, fish nets, fine paper, linen thread, linseed oil, livestock feed and a variety of linen goods turned out by industry.


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