David Macaulay: Mill Times

David Macaulay: Mill Times

🎞️ Movie
โ˜… 7.5 /10 2001

From the visionary award-winning author and illustrator David Macaulay (People, How Things Work, Cathedral) comes the animated PBS special Mill Times. Travel back to late 18th century Lowell, MA, now infamous for its textile mills and its "Lowell Girls," the poor, barely-educated waifs who helped turn those mills into sweatshops. Macaulay opens with Francis Cabot Lowell, who journeyed to Manchester, England in the early 19th century to study its textile production system, and carried that technology back to his planned (eponymous) community of Lowell, MA circa 1826. Through vivid animated illustrations, Macaulay brings to life the mill technology that Lowell spread across the Atlantic, helping to ignite the Industrial Revolution on two continents and forever changing how textiles are produced.

Cast

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David Macaulay
Self
Self
Derek Jacobi
Derek Jacobi
Priam Huntington
Richard Bebb
Richard Bebb
Josiah Gresham
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Brook Butterworth
Elizabeth Gresham
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Sheri Ginsberg
Sara Methuen
Doreen Keogh
Doreen Keogh
Mary Meuthuen
Dan Russell
Dan Russell
Raymond
John Sessions
John Sessions
Shadrack Moore
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R. Scott Thompson
Daniel Huntington
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Richard Einhorn
Composer
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Mike Fox
Cinematographer
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Terry Hopkins
Cinematographer