Football Ball Manufacture Aka Football Story (1956)

C/U of a football being kicked; M/Ss of a group of Arsenal players heading the ball to one another and displaying ball-skill dexterity on Highbury football pitch; commentator mentions players like Captain Cliff Holton and internationals (David) Bowen and (Derrick) Tapscott being household names; Dennis Evans may also be seen among the players.
M/S in a factory in South Norwood, London, where footballs have been made since 1891; although not mentioned by name it is Webber Bros. Ltd. A man is seen rolling up large sheets of leather, then he takes a roll to a cutting machine, spreads it over the cutting board and cuts out numerous oblong panels from it. A large pile of panels is placed before an elderly man, 70-year-old Joe Kidd sitting astride a wooden bench. He takes one panel and stretches it over the bench with the aid of some pincer/plier-type tools. C/Us of this process.
M/S of numerous men in a workroom who are stitching the panels together by hand; C/Us of a man stitching the inside-out panels; he wears leather covers over his fingertips for protection. M/S of a young man stitching. M/S of another young man who is squashing a white leather football into shape, with one of the panels sticking out.
M/S of a man standing before a table piled with finished and half-finished footballs; he is putting the bladder into a ball, then pumps it up.
More nice shots of the Arsenal team; this time they are seen at a practice game. One of the players scores a goal.
Note: print is quite badly scratched and is vinegar-syndrome infected. Negs used for telecine transfer - some neg sparkle.
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[@puntesingh5938]

Football was made with a leather and a bladder inside. I am 35 years old dude from South Asia and remember how hard those balls used to be compared to the footballs available now. I don’t even wanna start how bad football cleats were like 25-30 years back. When ppl compare cr7 and Messi with Pele or Garincha, they need to know that these players had nothing. No advanced training facility, trainers, doctors, physiotherapist, sauna, hot tub, cold tub, nutritionist, hundreds of support staffs, modern balls, modern cleats, evenly grassed grounds. Pele and Garincha achieved so much with relatively nothing. Goats!

[@funkrates4778]

👏👏👏 So well said. So many people need to read your comment. It's ridiculous how people don't understand the conditions that Pele, Garincha and Maradona played in. More respect is needed.

[@mkamen6102]

Imagine old people from video watching this video remember friends and family

[@chris64k]

most of them are probably dead already

[@mkamen6102]

You are actually right

[@fishfacejane]

Yes. My dad worked there from the 60's and possibly before. I used to go to work with him as a child on a Saturday morning. He died in 2005 but this film took me right back there. The place looked the same to the day it closed down. I could smell the leather again as I watched it.

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