Design in Plastic

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

580

Date Released

3 Feb 1966

Date recorded

31 Dec 1965

Length of issue (in feet)

679

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Fuzzbags
2. 2Design in Plastic
3. 3The Dedicated Men

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 3

Summary

Pathe synopsis: Designer Kenneth Lessons merges his talents with some exciting industrial processes to bring some fascinating new shapes to gift-shop counters. A Surrey firm has developed a technique for gold-plating leaves, which are then set into plastic jelly before hardening off as a transparent block. Just see the exciting designs that are created with anything from gold-plated vegetables to nuts and bolts.

Keywords

Arts and crafts

Locations

Weybridge; England; Surrey

Written sources

Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards   Used for synopsis

Credits:

Commentator

Wilfrid Thomas

Length of story (in feet)

225

Story extras:

Film clip

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