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Title: INDUSTRIAL BRITAIN

Reference number: 0908

Date: 1931

Director: p. Grierson and Flaherty

Sponsor: Empire Marketing Board

Production company: Gaumont British Picture Corporation Ltd.

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 12.06 mins

Description: A survey of industry in Britain, emphasising the importance of craftsmanship. [Incomplete]

Credits: BBFC "U" Certificate
Recorded by British Acoustic Film at Shepherd's Bush London
Distributed throughout the world by Gaumont British Distributors Limited.

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Shotlist: Credits (.49); Exterior shot of a windmill, sails turning (1.04); Exterior shot of a woman at a spinning wheel (1.07); Interior shot of a woman operating a small loom (1.23); Shots of a man stacking hay in a field (1.38); Shots inside of a man weaving a basket (1.50) Canal barge pulled by heavy horse on tow path (2.14); Shots of swans (2.16); Shots of a sailing ship (2.24); Shots on board ship as the sailors tend to the sails and the rigging (2.32); Shots of smoking factory chimneys, intercut with shots of a miner and surface mine buildings (2.55); Shots down the mine. Shots of men walking to coal face and at work (4.44); Montage of smoking chimneys (5.12); Young man at potter's wheel, throwing a Grecian-style urn (6.06); Shots of smoking chimneys (6.14); Man in Glass factory busy stoking furnace (6.48); Glasses being blown (9.35); Shots of a finished goblet being cut (10.00); Lenses for aerodromes and lighthouses are manufactured and assembled (11.09); Shots of industrial city sky-line (11.23); A finished turning aerodrome lens (11.56); More shots of smoking factory chimneys (12.06); [Incomplete]

[Please note the full version runs to 20.21 mins. Details can be found on Film Images website at http://www.film-images.com/, last accessed 7/4/2006]