Plastic Fantastic

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2090

Date Released

23 Jun 1969

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1On the Courts
2. 2Plastic Fantastic
3. 3Flying Gift
4. 4Time on Their Hands
5. 5In the Saddle

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Plastic Fantastic. DESCRIPTION: Intorplas, an International Exhibition for everything that’s plastic. Plastic includes Tomboy a new moulded plastic boat, for everyone that wants to be out, about and afloat. SHOTLIST: MLS girls in plastic barrels looking at exhibition of plastics in Olympia. GV interior plastics exhibition Olympia. MS plastic suitcases. MCU pan down various bra’s. MCU zoom out modelling dummy. CU machine punches out plastic cup. CU box of cups. MS machine in operation. MCU gauge. MS man hands products made by machine to Mayor of Portsmouth (plastic backs of TVs). MS pan down film making machine. MCU operator slides safety door and starts machine. MS operator picks up magnifying glass from machine. CU operator demonstrates magnifying glass. MCU brush machine putting hairs on brushes. MCU hull of boat on vacuum forming machine. MLS men place sheet of plastic on machine. MS operator at controls. MS pan clamp comes down. MCU locking devices hold onto clamp. MCU heating tray slides over sheet. MS heating tray slides off sheet. MCU sheet lowered onto mould of hull. TS clamp lowered onto sheet. TS vacuum forming in operation. MS men remove plastic hull from machine and place on floor. MS man cutting surplus plastic from hull. MS finished hull. MS pan photo of boat in sea, pan to girls in bikinis sitting in boat. MCU man hits hull with sledge hammer. MS pan down sailing boat version.

Keywords

Industry and manufacture; Local government; Exhibitions and shows

Locations

Olympia; United Kingdom

Card file number

94868

Credits:

Commentator

John Braban

Length of story (in feet)

192

Story extras:

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