WASH DAY THE EASY WAY

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Title: WASH DAY THE EASY WAY

Reference number: 3425

Date: 1982

Sponsor: Edinburgh District Council

Production company: Edinburgh Cine Society

Sound: sound

Original format: super 8mm

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 7.30 mins

Description: A public laundries film by Edinburgh Cine Society for Edinburgh District Council from 1982 profiling public laundries at Bonnington Road, Causewayside and Murdoch Terrace.

Cataloguer's comment: An interesting film showing Edinburgh "steamies" still being used in the early 1980s.

Credits: film group Jack Grant, Norman Ireland, Jim Johnston, Les Knott, Maisie Tait

Shotlist: Credits, [b&w] stills of old steamie [old fashioned public laundry service], [col] int & ext of public laundries in Edinburgh - shots of women bringing in their washing and using the various services provided from washing to steam ironing, man interviewing women in laundry, end credits (7.30)