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Title: TAKEN FOR GRANTED

Reference number: 8388

Date: 1971*

Director: [filmed by Dr James B B Baird]

Sound: silent

Original format: super 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 12.24 mins

Description: An amateur publicity film for William Thyne Ltd. Carton Manufacturers of Edinburgh, including shots of materials delivery and various stages of carton production.

Title preserved as part of an AHRC funded video preservation project in partnership with Glasgow University, entitled 'Children and Amateur Media in Scotland'.

Shotlist: exterior gvs of William Thyne Ltd. Carton Manufacturers headquarters [William Thyne Ltd. Lochend Works, Marionville Road, Edinburgh?] - shots of notice board - title - shots of flat-bed lorry delivering crates to Thyne's factory - delivery is checked and unloaded by fork-lift truck - technician performs tests on materials delivered - gvs of warehouse, stacks of materials, fork-lift at work - shots of pallets being moved around factory (3.54) wide and c/u shots of machinery in operation - printed cartons being fed through machine, including Keiller's Clear Fruits - more c/u shots of machinery in operation, cartons being printed - c/u shots of gear mechanism - printed cartons being fed into machine - shots of Scott's Porage Oats cartons being fed into machine for trimming - edges are trimmed off cartons and removed on conveyor belt (10.27) woman feeds trimmed and printed Johnnie Walker cartons into machine - c/u controls - cartons are checked at end of conveyor belt, then tied together in bundles, then bundles wrapped in paper - wrapped bundles travel along conveyor belt (12.24)