Caption
The acetate lingerie featured above is but one of a wide range of exciting new materials made from wood cellulose. Versatile and easy to care for, such fabrics have become indispensable in the modern woman's wardrobe.
Release Date
April 22, 1958
Materials
Typescript with illustrations
Collection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Caption
With the ever-widening field of industrial application to which wood and wood products are being put, Canada's forests, always important, today lie at the very core of her economy
Date
July 1, 1953
Accession Number
LAC-NFB66960
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011175919
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
This cellulose mill on Watson Island, 10 miles north of Prince Rupert, B.C. boasts the highest jack-ladder in Canada. The ladder is used to transport the logs from the sorting pond into the mill for processing. The mill, located on a direct rail route with Prince Rupert, has its own deep-sea dock in an all-year protected harbour.
Date
July 1, 1956
Accession Number
LAC-NFB77227
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011176298
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
Canada's lush forests supply the cellulose and the Prairies' rich oil fields provide the material used in making acetic acid . . . the chemical ingredients which combine to produce acetate -- the modern textile industry's "beauty fibre".
Date
July 1, 1956
Accession Number
LAC-NFB77229
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011176299
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
The story of Canadian cellulose is a "logs to lingerie" success story of the creation of some of today's most versatile "wonder fabrics" from the raw product -- wood cellulose -- of Canada's vast forests. Chipping giant timbers is first step in creation of man-made fibres.
Date
July 1, 1956
Accession Number
LAC-NFB84293
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011176711
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
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Caption
Jumbo-sized rolls of matted cellulose fibres -- each weighing about eight tons -- are submitted to a wide variety of quality-control tests before being cut into smaller bales for shipment to textile mills across Canada where they will be converted into one of the many new synthetic fabrics which have contributed so greatly to the ease and comfort of modern living.
Date
July 1, 1956
Accession Number
LAC-NFB84294
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Photostory #154: Fine Fabrics From Canada's Forests: Rough Logs to Lacy Lingerie
Photographers
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Maker
National Film Board of Canada
Release Date
April 22, 1958
Collection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Main Text
The acetate lingerie featured above is but one of a wide range of exciting new materials made from wood cellulose. Versatile and easy to care for, such fabrics have become indispensable in the modern woman's wardrobe.
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