QUEEN O' THE BORDER
Full length video
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Title: QUEEN O' THE BORDER
Reference number: 0493
Date: 1948
Director: d. Martin Wilson
Sponsor: COI for the Board of Trade and the Hawick Hosiery Manufacturers Association
Production company: Crown Film Unit
Sound: sound
Original format: 35mm
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 9.43 mins
Description: Scenes at the annual Hawick Festival and footage of Hawick hosiery workers knitting sweaters, and washing, drying and ironing the finished products.
Credits:
ed. Jocelyn Jackson
m. Malcolm Arnold
Photographed in Technichrome
A Central Office of Information Film for the Board of Trade and the Hawick Hosiery Manufacturers Association
Shotlist: Credits (0.20); Map showing location of Hawick. General views of the town and surrounding countryside (1.21); Young men of Hawick riding round their borders during ceremony to celebrate the capture of an English standard after the Battle of Flodden. The standard bearer, or Cornet, marks the boundary in the centre of a river. Procession through town (3.08); Hosiery workers at work knitting sweaters. Shots of women assembling and finishing the garments. Oil is washed and pounded out of the yarns. The sweaters are stretched on frames and quick dried and ironed. Some examples of the products (7.54); The Hawick Festival dance, with Cornet Chas Whillans. The Cornet tying colours on memorial statue (9.35); ecs (9.43)