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Hosepipe is manufactured on circular looms at Richards’ Broadford Works in Aberdeen, and tested under pressure. (clip) [74959661]
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Title: [BROADFORD WORKS, ABERDEEN]
Reference number: 5406
Date: 1962c
Production company: [ Templar Film Studios]
Sound: mute
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 3.35 mins
Description: The work of Broadford Works, Aberdeen. [manufacturing what appears to be a hosepipe or industrial fabric].
Shotlist: gvs inside Broadford Works, Aberdeen, showing mostly female workers on factory floor supervising and operating weaving machinery; gvs metal thread is wound over ends of completed hoses (2.20) male workers examine inflated hose for imperfections; c/u man operating air pump; c/u gauges (2.46) men on scaffolding construct chimney and move cables (3.15) elevated shot over Broadford Works towards construction (3.35)
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