CASHMERE IS SCOTTISH
Full length video
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Title: CASHMERE IS SCOTTISH
Reference number: 0578
Date: 1973
Director: d. Abel Goddman
Production company: Martin Kane Production
Sound: sound
Original format: 16mm
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 17.00 mins
Description:
Cashmere wool obtained from Mongolia is spun and knitted at Scottish mills into cashmere knitwear for Pringle, Ballantyne, Braemar and Glenmac.
See also refs. 0579, 3483 and 3484
Credits:
w. Moray Salden
nar. Bryden Murdoch
m. David Muricaine
ph. Harry Orchard
Scottish cashmere knitwear supplied by Pringle of Scotland, Ballantyne of Peebles, Braemar, Berrie, Glenmac and J & D McGeorge
[model Joanna Lumley]
Shotlist: No opening credits. Dawn over lochside. General shots of countryside in south of Scotland (1.06); Banners flying and shots of Highland games, dancers, athletes, a piper, etc. (2.17); Two women and one man wearing Cashmere sweaters. (2.33); Pipe band and credits superimposed (3.16); Mountain scenery in Mongolia. Cashmere goats are combed out by hand and the underfleece put into sacks. Yak with sacks on its back. Mule train (5.27); Weighing sacks and carrying them to waiting boats (5.46); Sacks of cashmere wool stored in Joseph Dawson's mill (6.01); Scoured and washed by machine. (6.26); Exterior of Todd and Duncan's mill by Loch Leven (6.44); Shots of dyeing process and teasing of wool (7.12); Oiling, carding and spinning onto cores (8.50); Inside the designer's office in knitwear factory (9.08); Shots inside factory of knitting machines (9.45); Women sew different pieces together. Man weaves pattern by hand (10.47); Views of the different processes in making a garment, with shots of machinery and hand operated processes. Garments pressed over a dummy (11.31); Sweater cut to make cardigan (11.49); Buttonholes, labels and finishing touches (12.07); Women model the knitwear (12.19); A couple in a sports car on road get out and admire the view - modelling knitwear. Various shots of different models with different backgrounds (15.30); Sunset over the water (15.40); ecs (16.30)