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Title: BRIGHT IDEA, the

Reference number: 4076

Date: 1955c

Production company: [ Industrial Panel of the Scottish Film Council]

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 6.40 mins

Description: Demonstrates how simple changes introduced to manufacturing and production processes can save time and money and ease stress on employees. Shows benefits of bright ideas introduced in manufacture of electric clocks, rivets, pipes for motor vehicles and cash registers, and encourages the viewer to think of how they could improve efficiency of where they work.

The cash registers featured in this film were probably manufactured at the NCR factory at Camperdown, Dundee.

Shotlist: talking head (0.24) ints factory with machines (0.50) talking head (1.24) girl manually packing electric clock in cardboard box (1.36) as previous shot, this time aided by a 'jig' (1.59) girl winding and setting clock (2.03) shot of male superviser walking along factory floor (2.10) girls now operating modified air-powered screwdriver to wind clocks (2.27) coils of steel wire being lifted by crane during manufacturing of rivets (2.57) as previous shot, this time using outsized hook to load coils of steel wire (3.44) [overexposed, too light] man sits operating dual pedals during manufacture of pipes for motor vehicle engines (4.23) piping patterns hanging from ceiling (4.44) man pulling pattern down with the aid of a hook (5.03) photographs of piping patterns are shown in files in foreman's office (5.24) shot of metal containers for cash registers made in factory in Dundee (possibly NCR factory at Camperdown, Dundee?) (6.08) talking head (6.40)