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Title: MANUFACTURE OF WIRECLOTH BELTS FOR PAPER MAKING

Reference number: 9371

Date: 1955c

Director: [filmed by Lionel Butler]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 14.22 mins

Description: The process of joining rolls of wirecloth to produce belts for the manufacture of paper.

Five reels have been reeled together for preservation storage, all footage seems to be of the same process taken at the same point in time.

See also https://www.unitedwire.com/about-us/ [last accessed 17/05/2021]. Probably filmed at United Wire Works, Broompark Avenue (now Granton Park Avenue), off West Granton Road, Edinburgh. See also ref. 4094 and 9362

Films shot by Lionel Butler - a member of the Edinburgh Cine Club where he worked with many people, including Adam Malcolm. He knew Alan Harper of Campbell-Harper Films.

Shotlist: Reel 1
[no title] - c/u rolls of wirecloth - worker brushing top and underside of wirecloth with hand and scraper as others hold it taut - c/u shot edge of scraper - cut end of wirecloth is folded back over itself - end of wirecloth is cut by hand with large scissors - c/u shots of further cutting (3.10)

Reel 2
[no title] - factory interiors, roll of wirecloth folded over - c/u shots edge being trimmed with scissors - backing paper laid out and folded over, wooden bars and weights placed on top to hold it down (2.06) edge of wirecloth being sanded by hand, inspected with magnifying glass, sanded again - electrical plate fitted to wooden runners and plugged in (3.36)

Reel 3
[no title] - c/u shots of wirecloth rolls being welded together at seams - extreme c/u shots of flux melting to coat mesh and join two seams (0.37) c/u shots of edge of wirecloth being trimmed by hand with scissors (1.40)

Reel 4
[no title] - c/u items on desk, including box of Kodak photographic plates, Ansachrome film box and Ernst Leitz microscope manual - pan across factory floor - closer shot worker seaming two rolls of wirecloth, looking through microscope - c/u shots welding mechanism moving along seam - map on wall of factory (1.09) gvs factory, rolls of wirecloth - pan across long shed in factory, continuous roll of wirecloth on rollers, worker brushing near end - pan across different part of factory, machines and rolls of wire in foreground - rolls of wire in factory yard through door - gvs yard, rolls of wire in foreground, forklift truck passes carrying rolls of wire marked 'Niagara' - c/u chimney smoking - brief shot of factory laboratory (3.40)

Reel 5
[no title] - interior gvs of clothes shop, mother and assistant watch as young girl tries on coats (0.29) gvs in factory, worker at workbench lining up edges of wirecloth sheets for seaming, checking line under microscope, positioning flux wire and metal guide - c/u shots of flux being heated (2.26)