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Title: MR DAVID BROWN IN OLIVER

Reference number: 10311

Date: 1978c

Director: filmed by Dr. Ken J H Mackay

Sound: silent

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 4.26 mins

Description: Amateur footage of a blacksmith operating an 'Oliver' treadle hammer in a smithy.

The Oliver treadle hammer was named after its inventor, engineer Thomas Oliver.

Note on the film-maker - Dr MacKay was a physics teacher at the High School of Stirling.

Shotlist: MR DAVID BROWN - IN - OLIVER - older man walks through garden and goes into shed - inside shed, with younger man, both looking at Victorian era photograph of group of men - ext shot of shed - looking at reverse of photograph, '[...] D Brown With Mr Rodger's [respects?] July 18[..]' - both men inspect old 'Oliver' treadle hammer (1.37) gvs inside shed, older man stoking up furnace and hammering iron bar on anvil, using treadle hammer – gvs blacksmith demonstrating and adjusting treadle hammer – c/u shots treadles and connections to beams (3.51) gvs blacksmith operating treadle hammer – c/u bar being hammered to a point (4.26)