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Title: RICHARDS TEXTILE FACTORY

Reference number: N0609

Date: 1977

Production company: Grampian Television

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 12.03 mins

Description: The work of the Richards Textiles Factory at Broadford, Aberdeen is shown, including some good interior shots of the factory machinery and production line. Includes interview with Mr. Richards, the Managing Director.

Credits: reporter Alan Cowie

Shotlist: ints Richards Textiles Factory, with machinery in operation (0.23) [countdown leader] (0.31) yarn is separated and spun on machines (0.48) -blank- (0.59) exts Richards Ltd. Broadford Works, Aberdeen, reporter enters by car past security (1.37) he signs in and is given a visitors pass (2.17) interview with Mr. Richards, who talks about the business (4.48) [mute] exts factory, general mixture of previous material, including c/u Securicor warning "Guard Dogs on Patrol" (7.37) [sound] ints factory, where various mechanised textile manufacturing processes are shown, overseen by small mixed workforce, as well as spools being changed by hand; fibres are (12.03)