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Women working in a Borders textile factory in the 1950s, sewing by machine and by hand. (clip) [74959115]
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Title: [HAWICK TEXTILE FACTORY]
Reference number: 5765
Date: 1960c
Sound: silent
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 7.13 mins
Description: General views of people working in textile factory and a woman touring around the factory. Possibly in Hawick?
Shotlist: gvs of woman and two men sitting on podium within a factory, another woman presents a bouquet of flowers to the woman on podium (0.22) gvs of audience seated in chairs clapping (0.33) gvs of woman with flowers watching man working at textile loom (0.48) gvs of man working on loom (1.21) gvs of women in factory working at sewing machines (2.05) gvs of women hand sewing garments (2.20) gvs of garments going through washing and mangle machines (2.50) gvs of women working at sewing machines and woman with flowers watching them and inspecting a garment (3.28) gvs of women in factory working at sewing machines (4.05) gvs of man pressing garment in pressing machine (4.30) gvs of woman with flowers looking around factory (4.39) gvs of well dressed man and women looking at garments and talking (5.18) gvs of Provost and other well dressed men and women getting into cars outside factory (6.41) gvs of people from factory standing outside talking and some wave at the camera (7.13)
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