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Identifier:

  • 477 (Source: North West Film Archive )

Date produced: 1936

Filmmaker(s):

Alexander James Briscoe

Country of Production:

United Kingdom

Languages:

English

Duration:

00:25:50

Length:

620 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

B&W and Colour

Sound Notes:

Silent

Description:

"The Workshop trains physically handicapped people over school age. Activities featured are the General Committee at work - ladies seated around a table; a medical inspection - boys are weighed and have their chests, throats and limbs examined; all stages of book - binding; dinner time in the kitchen and the canteen; recreation; table - tennis, cards, reading, sewing, bagatelle, etc; needlework and embroidery room - women sewing at a long table; more scenes in the bindery; men busy in a leather workshop; and finally (in colour) a display of finished goods, and groups of workers, outside in the yard." (NWFA Online Archive)

Resources:

BFI Player
NWFA Online Database

Locations:

  • Liverpool, Merseyside, UK. (Filming)

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Repository:

North West Film Archive

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