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The Rope Maker

Archive Item: LAVC/FIL/F001

Details

Type of record: Archive

Title: The Rope Maker

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/FIL/F001

Creator(s): Hanna, Sam (1903-1996)

Date(s): [1960s]

Size and medium: 1 reel; Duration: not known.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414946

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Copy of Sam Hanna's film, 'The Rope Maker', filmed at the workshop of ropemaker Mr. T. G. Outhwaite, in Hawes ( Wensleydale). The film includes footage of rope being made according to traditional methods, and a cow-tie being woven on a loom.


The film is one of a series of films made by Sam Hanna from the late 1920s onwards, recording English traditional crafts. The films were distributed by Brun Educational Films Ltd.

Provenance

There is an access copy DVD of this content.

Access and usage

Reproduction

Access

DVD access copies of the films are available for consultation. References for the DVD copies are given in the item-level record for each film.

Copyright in all these items resides with the individual film makers.

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England

Handicraft

North Yorkshire

Occupations

Ropemakers

Ropemaking

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