The Doll Factory’s Assembly Line (1963) | British Pathé

Learn how a doll factory in London makes a modern doll in an assembly line. This archive footage demonstrates every part of the process from connecting the eyes to the head, hair styling, dressing up, and adding a tape recorder that is tucked away in the belly. For Archive Licensing Enquiries Visit: Explore Our Online Channel For FULL Documentaries, Fascinating Interviews & Classic Movies: #BritishPathé #Dolls #Toys #Hairstyle Subscribe to the British Pathé YT Channel: (FILM ID:) Battersea, South London. A woman’s hands walks a doll towards the camera, the doll speaks - “am I a good girl Mummy?“. Various shots of plastic dolls’ heads being manufactured in moulds. C/U of hair being machined onto a doll’s head. C/U of a tray of glass eyes. Two eyes are taken from the tray and poked into a doll’s head - ouch! C/U of details being added to the face. To colour the lips red paint is sprayed through a stencil. Various shots of the dolls’ heads being joined to the body. Once the doll is assembled the hair is styled. Various shots of the sewing of the dolls’ clothes and the dolls being dressed. C/U of the string in the back of a completed doll being pulled - “I do love you Mummy, please tell me a fairy story“. BRITISH PATHÉ’S STORY Before television, people came to movie theatres to watch the news. British Pathé was at the forefront of cinematic journalism, blending information with entertainment to popular effect. Over the course of a century, it documented everything from major armed conflicts and seismic political crises to the curious hobbies and eccentric lives of ordinary people. If it happened, British Pathé filmed it. Now considered to be the finest newsreel archive in the world, British Pathé is a treasure trove of 85,000 films unrivalled in their historical and cultural significance. British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.