Description: This newsreel item follows a day in the life of the Bryant and Mays match factory on the Fairfield Road in Bow, East London, beginning with the arrival of workers at 7 am and concluding with them leaving at the end of the work day at 6pm. Logs for the sawmill are craned from large piles onto the ground where sawyers cut them into smaller sizes using a two-man saw. An intertitle notes that one log makes 250,000,000 matches. The logs proceed to peeling machines where they are sliced into veneer sheets. A large automatic circular saw is seen slicing logs. Veneers are rolled through a machine in long strips. A group of men receive smaller strips from another machine, which they fold into the rims and outer cover of matchboxes. Other parts of timber are cut into splints to form the bodies of matchsticks and waste dust is sorted away. At a break for 'dinner hour' some men sit playing cards about a table while smoking. After the break we see women working on a production line, where machines sort matches into boxes. In another room men mix chemicals in large vats in order to make up the composition for match heads. Elsewhere in the building women sort matchboxes into dozens, while others make up the cardboard boxes. Completed sets of matches are placed into wooden crates and loaded onto railway racks for distribution about the country. As the workers leave for the day, they joke amongst themselves and take an interest in the camera filming them.