GLASGOW'S WEDDING GIFT
Full length video
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Title: GLASGOW'S WEDDING GIFT
Reference number: 1507
Date: 1949
Sound: silent
Original format: 16mm
Colour: bwcol
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 4.01 mins
Description:
Shot inside the factory of H. Morris & Co. the film shows the construction and display of a fitted bedroom suite that was gifted by the City of Glasgow to HRH Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant Mountbatten on the occasion of their wedding.
Find out more about the history of Morris Furniture on their website at http://www.morrisfurniture.co.uk/history [last accessed 3/4/2008]
Shotlist:
[shotlisted from speed corrected tape, manual control track]
[No credit]. [BW] Shots inside factory of craftsmen at work constructing fitted bedroom suite. Close-ups of detail on the panels, etc (2.01); - Blank - (2.09); [COL] Craftsman works on panel; Shots of finished Royal Suite complete with soft furnishings being dusted (3.53); Shot of Neil Morris, the Director of the firm, with the Lord Provost of Glasgow entering the suite (4.01)