A 'Thomas Edison Talkie' was presented in the late teens, using a phonograph record for sound. The older worker * came charging over to me yelling that I could have killed him and what was I thinking? After he found out it was my first ten minutes on the job he calmed down, and then when he found out I was the son of his first cousin (my mother), he took me under his wing and looked out for me the rest of the summer. Silent 'moving pictures' were shown in the early 1900s.
If there was any space between the shuttle and the arm, the shuttle got "batted" instead of being pushed and if that had been part of the instructions I must have missed it. Turns out that before restarting the loom it was important to press the shuttle against one of the arms that pushed it back and forth. I shut off my first loom, blew the lint off, and turned the loom back on only to watch in horror as the loom batted the shuttle, with its sharply pointed steel tip, across the room nearly hitting and seriously injuring an older worker. It seemed clear and straight forward so he quickly left me on my own to begin.
My first night on the job another young worker instructed me on how to stop each loom, blow the lint off, restart the loom, and then move to the next loom.
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