Pretty and Plane
Series
- Series Name
- Home and Away
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 4
- Summary
- BFI synopsis: A look at the hobbies of 2 employees of Babcock & Wilcox. Willie Shannon, draughtsman for Babcock & Wilcox shows a girl how to embroider, and is also seen creating needlework designs, tracing onto fabric and embroidering designs. Another Babcock employee, disabled in one arm, designs model aeroplane kits from pictures, and there are shots of the assembly of aircraft.
- Keywords
- Entertainment and leisure; Arts and crafts; Disabled persons; Toys and models
- Written sources
- British Film Institute Databases Used for synopsis
Scottish Screen Archive database Ref.1522
- Credits:
-
- Sponsor
- Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd.
- Producer
- Cyril Randell
- Director
- Peter Ward
- Editor
- Robert Morgan
- Production Co.
- Technical & Scientific Films Ltd.
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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London W1T 1LN - Notes
- The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).
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How to cite this record
'Pretty and Plane', Home and Away Issue No. 12, 1957. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/352826 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)