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Spinning Your Future
What’s new in textiles? This recruitment film aims to tempt teenagers to work in their local Courtaulds mill.
Overview
“For Courtaulds - to show what’s new in Lancashire’s textile industry”: this recruitment film aims to tempt teenagers to work in the local mill. How could they resist “a textile industry that still has all the friendliness of the old, now joined to the excitement and opportunity of the new”?
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