Doing it in Style
Series
- Series Name
- Ingot Pictorial
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 6
- Summary
- BFI Summary - At Merton Park studios, girls learn to keep hair short (for safety) yet attractive
NFA synopsis: Girl operatives crowning glory. September 1953. Hairstyles in factory work and the dilema of beauty/glamour v. safety regulations. Exterior shots of Merton Park Studios and the set of the feature film "Dangerous Voyage" with William Landingham and the film being shot are shown. Barbara Barnard, the hairstylist, goes to work on the steel-girl models and does their hair. They also talk with William Landingham. Back on the factory floor the girls are shown with their new hairstyles. - Keywords
- Industry and manufacture; Safety devices; Cinema; Fashion and costume
- Written sources
- British Film Institute Databases
National Film Archive Catalogue Used for synopsis
Film User Vol.8 No.88 February 1954, p89.
- Credits:
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- Producer
- E. P. Moyna
- Sponsor
- Richard Thomas and Baldwins Group
- Production Co.
- Verity Films Ltd.
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- British Film Institute (BFI)
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