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Title: FLAX MAKING

Reference number: 4558

Date: c.1950s - 1960s

Sponsor: [ Richards of Aberdeen Ltd]

Production company: [ attributed to Clansman]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 6.16 mins

Description: All the different processes at Richards of Aberdeen Ltd, including general views of the flax making process from cutting and drying in the fields to the factory. General views of the raw flax entering the plant and being passed through the various stages until the cloth is ready to be dispatched. Donor information - the fields were in Banff and Buchan.

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Shotlist: gvs of waterway (.7) gvs of large load of flax being driven by tractor to factory (.32) gvs of men laying flax out on conveyor belt and it going through grinding machine (1.20) gvs of bales of flax being flung by machine into piles (1.35) gvs of men putting bales into storage rooms and them being taken out of another room (2.25) gvs of men in fields sorting the flax bales so they stand up in pyramid shapes (3.04) gvs of flax going through various parts of machinery and men folding and tying it (5.23) gvs of people standing about in town centre and talking (5.52) gvs of waterway (6.10) c/u of flax (6.16)