Still from Let Your Body Breathe in Movie Makers, Dec. 1941, 541.
English
00:26:00
925 ft
16mm
Kodachrome
Silent
"Kendall T. Greenwood has told an interesting and uniformly attractive story of one of America's great integrated industries in Let Your Body Breathe. From the original Goodall Company plant in Sanford, Maine, to the elaborate retailing methods of the present day, the film presents a clear cut picture of Palm Beach cloth and its part in the modern pattern of warm weather living. Designed primarily for use within the trade, Let Your Body Breathe shows the retailer all the important points in the manufacture of this fabric, its tailoring by the parent company into suits and sportswear and the continued control over the product, even to such details as proper laundering or cleaning. Mr. Greenwood's camera work is crisp, his editing incisive, while the narrative contributes judiciously to an able industrial record." Movie Makers, Dec. 1941, 568.
"Let Your Body Breathe traces the development of the textile industry against swift, fascinating scenes of carding, drawing, spinning and weaving" (Business Screen Magazine, no. 1, 1940, 16).
"The League at Work" (Movie Makers, Oct. 1941, 460, 475-476) explains how the ACL assisted Greenwood in his production of this film.
The film is held by the American Textile History Museum.
American Textile History Museum
Amateur Cinema