Figuratively Speaking
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Jantzen, Carl C.
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content: Jantzen Knitting Mills Collection
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content: Jantzen Knitting Mills Collection / Series 5: Audiovisual Materials / 5.1: Films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (color, composite optical soundtrack, print, 16mm, 690 feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1951
container: label: Container
content: Reel OF 233.3
label: Container
content: Box 9, Item MV 233.3
label: Container
content: Box 9, Item RV 233.3
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Moving Images [31983000028837]
label: Type
content: Moving Images
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Descriptive Summary: This is a film directed to store buyers. The first half of film dedicated to history of Jantzen bathing suits and styles. Female and male models are shown in these suits. The viewer is taken to several Jantzen factories around the world including Mexico, South Africa and South America. Workers are shown in the factories in a number of these scenes. This segues into women's figure types (long torso, junior, small bust, large hips, etc.) and the proper fit of the swimwear. Charts of the different figure types are explained and the proper way to put on a suit is demonstrated. Several suits are modeled inside out to view their construction elements. Fashions for men, women and children close out the film. 

Creator:

Producer: Jantzen, Inc.

Director: Erven Jourdan

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Notes: Original script by Ernest Gold.

Song "There's Nothing Like a Jantzen in the World" by Wendell Adams and Elizabeth Eyerly.