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Title: TEMPLETON'S CARPETS

Reference number: 1626

Date: 1939

Sponsor: James Templeton & Co.

Production company: Scottish Film Productions

Sound: mute

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Running time: 8.27 mins

Description: The manufacture of Templeton's Carpets is detailed from the initial design to the finished article.

Shotlist: Credits (.06); Photograph of unidentified man, possibly James Templeton, the founder (.12); Shot of old manuscript (.21); 1841. (.24); Photograph of unknown church (.29); Picture of Edward VII's christening with Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and Edward (.34); Picture of an outdoor ceremony with Queen Victoria seated and crowds (.40); Unidentified church (.43); Shots of the exterior of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (.51); Shots of interior. Templeton's designer in residence working at his desk (.56); Close-up of carpet, panning to man copying the design on paper (1.02); Close shot of carpet design (1.04); Man uses colour cards to match the colours in the carpet (1.08); Photographs of different carpet designs (1.18); Interiors of Templeton's carpet factory, Glasgow. Men working in drawing room on carpet designs (1.24); Close-up of man as he designs a flower pattern for a carpet (1.29); Shots of men colouring in designs (1.33); Close-ups of men and women as they paint the drawn designs (1.57); Woman lays out the finished painted template to give the overall effect of the carpet (2.05); Shot of shepherd with his flock and his dog in a lake scene (2.14); The manufacturing process - shots of preparation of the wool into flanks (2.26); Shots as the wool is dyed and labelled (2.45); Sample wool is compared with the wool in the carpet (2.55); The wool is then sorted into a particular order of colour on a machine (3.06); Shot of women working the machine (3.11); Shots of women putting strands of wool onto long reels (3.25); Shots of the reels on a vertical rotating belt being examined by women (3.48); Woollen thread is passed through rollers and fed into unidentified machine (3.56); Shots of supervisors checking the machine (4.05); Women working the last threading stage on the loom (4.23); Woman checking rows of carpet and replacing missing threads (4.39); Shots of woman using scissors to cut down any large threads (4.45); Men transporting carpets on a trolley (4.48); Shots of a carpet being passed through a rolling machine, possibly the 1927 Coronation Carpet (5.11); A showroom in London (5.18); Shots as customers are attended to by assistants (5.28); Shelves of carpet samples in showroom (5.34); Shots of carpets on display to the public (5.54); Close-up of carpet designs (6.34); Demonstration of the imitation hand-tufted carpets (6.39); Carpet design (6.43); Shot of the liner "Queen Mary" (6.49); Shots of women working on looms with the manager present (7.00); Shot of the spire of the Albert bank ledger no. 6, the Company's bank (7.06); Women working on a carpet after it has been woven (7.13); Shots of works' outing. Worker fills in record card (7.27); Staff outing from the Glasgow works. Shots of crowds mostly women, on board steamer during works' outing (7.34); View of steamer full of people (7.38); Two men skipping on the deck and shots of on-lookers (7.42); People running out of factory entrance (7.46); Shots of people playing tennis at the works' sports ground (7.50); Playing bowls (7.53); General view of field with pipe band and onlookers (7.58); Exterior of the Glasgow factory (8.02); Shot of the manager (8.07); Reels of wool in the machine (8.12); Shot of carpet designs (8.16); Shots of a liner being pulled by a tug (8.18); General views of the liner at Dusk (8.26); The End (8.27)