GREAT MILL RACE, the
Full length video
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Title: GREAT MILL RACE, the
Reference number: 0921
Date: 1975
Director: d. Robin Crichton
Sponsor: Films of Scotland, National Association of Scottish Woollen Manufacturers and the Scottish Woollen Trade Employers Association
Production company: Edinburgh Film Productions
Sound: sound
Original format: 16mm
Colour: col
Fiction: fiction
Running time: 30.10 mins
Description:
Dramatised account of a race between an unscrupulous modern woollen mill and a traditional mill to make up a garment from original fleece to finished article.
Shown at the 6th International Film Festival of India, 1977.
See production file for script, treatment etc.
Credits:
stuntman Jim Boyce
p. ass. John Degnan, Robin Degnan, Ian Fraser, Keith Thorpe, Rosemary Aitkin; make-up Jean Maiden
costumes Sue Smith, Carol Rushton
titles Camera Effects
VTR engineers Jim Anderson, Dave Webster
continuity Trish Crichton
ass. ed. Peter
Shotlist: Credits [superimposed over film] Shot of British Caledonian jet at Edinburgh airport. Photographers at foot of mobile steps as models disembark (.17) Inside the terminal TV news reporter talking on camera (1.48) Scene in a golf club bar (2.59) Scene on golf course (3.44) ext. shot of woollen mill (3.51) int shot of office where the character Jimmy has the idea for a record-breaking attempt to make a suit (5.47) int. shot of the mill where Jenny is checking finished cloth for flaws (6.45) pan from Edinburgh castle to ext. of the North British Hotel in Princes Street (7.00) int. shot inside room in North British Hotel where meeting of representatives of the major mills decide on a race to produce the fastest suit (9.08) int shot of staff canteen (9.47) ext. shot of mill (9.54) int. shot of mill with automatic weaving machines at work and a computer printed design card (10.59) int. shot of office where Jimmy and Mr Carrick discuss the race (12.33) shot of reporter in TV studio set up at the College of Textiles, Galashiels (15.58) shots of crowd gathered round sheep in a pen (16.03) shot of sheep being manhandled into mill (16.09) shots of sheep shearing (16.42) shots of wool being scoured and yard spinning showing McLeod tartan beginning to take shape on looms, intercut with shots of the TV studio (18.30) shot of computer design being fed into automatic loom (18.40) shot of cloth torn because of a needle left accidentally in the cloth (18.55) shots of weaving processes as material is ready to be tinted and cropped and the finished fabric is rolling of the machinery (19.26) machinist at hand sewing machine and shots of labels being hand sewn on to finished garments (21.13) shots of participants in race in sports car, small aeroplane, motor cycle, horseback, parachute (28.14) shot of Jenny in the winning suit (28.50) ecs (30.10)