STRICTLY BUSINESS
Full length video
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Title: STRICTLY BUSINESS
Reference number: 3222
Date: 1947 - 1965
Director: [filmed by Allan White]
Sound: sound
Original format: 16mm
Colour: bwcol
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 9.58 mins
Description:
Delegates from Thomas White & Sons Ltd. of Paisley at a trade fair in Canada demonstrating woodworking machinery, and being given an official welcome at Sydney airport.
See additional info. file and accompanying audio cassette for background information.
See also refs. 3223 and 4072
See also extract offering a little context and history about about Thomas White & Sons from the book 'Scottish Industry' by C.A. Oakley (1953) pp. 120. http://main-cat.nls.uk/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=1737201 [last accessed 12/02/2021] Drawings and other archive material with Paisley Museum: for details see NRA (Scot)/0721.
Shotlist: [BW] [September 1947] visuals New York, shot of signs [COL] people on top of Empire State Building (?), gvs New York street scenes including Times Square, cinema hoardings and busy traffic (3.04) gvs Niagara Falls and tourist boat 'Maid of the Mist' (4.48) Through the Rockies from Vancouver to Calgary shots of steam train and visuals landscape from train through Rockies. Includes Yoho and Ice River Valleys and Emerald Lake Chalet (6.37) Homeward Bound shot of steam ship funnel and credit The End (6.56) -blank- (7.00) ext. Canadian International Trade Fair at Toronto [sign reads 'Coronation Year, so presumably 1953?] (7.09) [BW] ints trade fair and c/u stand for Thomas White & Sons Ltd (7.35) shots of demonstration of Thomas White's woodworking machinery (8.16) [COL] Hanover Industries Fair brief shot of people leaving plane, shot of cars on busy road [Hannover, Germany] (8.40) aerials and expansive gvs of Hannover trade fair (9.34) ints hall devoted to exclusive display of woodwork machinery (9.46) exts fountains and gvs trade fair (10.04) c/u brochure "Land of the Southern Cross, Australia" [1959*] brief shot TAA Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Terminal exit (10.15) [1965] shot of street, brief shot vessel 'The Canberra' and brief shot Sydney Opera House under construction [the film maker was in Australia as part of a delegation for the Scottish Council for Development and Industry trade mission, under leadership of Sir Robert MacLean] (11.01) brief shot people on beach (11.14) shot of delegates being met from plane with pipe band, at Canberra (11.58) shot of Scottish Memorial Hall and Burns club and man laying wreath at Burns Statue (12.20) visuals Honolulu (13.38) THE END (13.45)