Film Record: Coming of the Camerons, The

Still from The Coming of the Camerons via National Library of Scotland

Identifier:

• 3975 (Source: East Anglian Film Archive)
• 3828 (Source: National Library of Scotland )

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Frank M. Marshall

Country of Production:

United Kingdom

Languages:

English

Duration:

00:12:00

Length:

300 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

B&W

Sound Notes:

Silent

Description:

A film about the introduction of trousers instead of skirts for women who work for the postal service. Jean Cameron was the postal service woman who requested the trousers, which became known as 'Camerons.'

Resources:

IAC Film Library Catalogue (Silent and Sound). Institute of Amateur Cinematographers, 1975.
This film is part of the Institute of Amateur Cinematographers Collection held by the East Anglian Film Archive, Norwich, UK.
A colour version of this film (dated 1944) is available via National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive (ref. 3828).

Subjects:

• Work

Genre:

• Historical

Form:

• Short

Tags:

Repository:

Institute of Amateur Cinematographers Collection, East Anglian Film Archive

Video Link:

• National Library of Scotland

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