Operation Luggage (1957, silent)

Description: Workplace portrait of the laborers and processes involved in manufacturing luggage at the Baltimore Luggage Company, 304 North Smallwood Street, Baltimore, Maryland. Includes images of executive staff as well as factory workers performing specialized labor and having lunch in the staff canteen. The film depicts African American and white workers in an integrated workplace while also showing divisions of labor and association based on race and gender.

Notes on can:

Title Operation Luggage / produced by Baltimore Luggage Co. / orig / 1957

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Subjects: 1950s, Labor, Manufacturing, Industry, People of African origin or descent, Gender roles

Tags: Baltimore Luggage Company; factories; lunchrooms; trucks; brick factory exteriors; Home of Lady Baltimore sign; office interiors; staff with executives; staff at desks; women's labor; filing; demonstrations; suitcases; kidney table; women operating factory equipment; white and African American workers; African American people; wood bending; case cover assembly; stamping machines; multiracial workplace; gendered and racial division of labor; assembly lines; integrated workforce; fancy dress; 1950s fashions; sewing machines; close-ups; detail work; shipping; palettes; loading docks; machine shops; engineering labs; first aid; maps of workplace; cafeterias; canteens; Black and white workers eating together; loading docks; delivery trucks; homemade titles; Baltimore Luggage Company brick factory exterior; factory exterior signs; office interiors; staff with executives; staff at desks; women typing; filing; women operating machinery; showing off suitcases on kidney-shaped table; staged title "box making;" women operating factory equipment; case cover assembly process; stamping machine; African American women workers operating assembly system; putting covers on boxes; detail view of sewing on edge bands; workers very nicely dressed with jewelry; workers drill hinges; cut skeins of satin; closeup hands working; operating sewing machine; workers doing detail work; final suitcase assembly; boxing cases for shipping; title "facilities services;" pallets at loading dock; machine shop interiors; engineering lab interiors; First Aid room interiors; lunchroom interiors; shipping rolling palettes; truck with brand logo rolls away from the dock; homemade titles; "The Baltimore Luggage Co." sign; "Home of Lady Baltimore Luggage" sign; soda machines; truck drivers; The End title

Film Sponsor: Baltimore Luggage Company

Creator: Baltimore Luggage Company

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Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: 1957

Release Date:

Geographical Location: Baltimore, Maryland; USA; Maryland

Genre/Form: industrial, amateur, home movie

Language: eng

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Film Format: 8mm film

Element: original, reversal, positive

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: circle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 386