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Title: CLEVER HANDS MAKING PAPER FLOWERS

Reference number: 9310

Date: 1952*

Director: filmed by Dr Iain Dunnachie

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 11.01 mins

Description: A study detailing a woman creating intricate paper flower arrangements using paper, glue and scissors.

Entered in Scottish Amateur Film Festival, 1954. Specially commended by Amateur Cine World. See paper records at 2/3/84.

Note there are silent and sound versions of this title held. Information from the commentary: it seems it was the film-maker's grandmother who featured in the film, and she devised the commentary.

Credits: Iain Dunnachie presents

Shotlist: title (0.25) ANEMONES gvs intricate handmade process as woman cuts out paper petals, glues stem and leaves and then arranges various different coloured paper anemone flowers in a bowl (4.26) RHODODENDRONS gvs woman arranging red paper petals, fixing with wires and adding metal stalk, adds paper rhododendron flowers to a real stalk with leaves (6.44) CARNATIONS gvs intricate handmade process as woman cuts out paper petals, glues stem and leaves and then arranges various pink paper anemone flowers in a vase (10.44) THE END, overlaid on image of beautiful paper flower arrangement (11.01)