Do It Yourself (1958)

Full title reads: “Olympia. Do It Yourself“. Olympia, London. CU Two small boys playing with tool kit on table. CU One of the small boys with a hammer in each hand. SV People watching the Polish stand where a man is making wicker chairs. CU As he threads the wicker work. CU A pair of shoes being held by hands and the hands move across to put them down on a skirt of a dress. Zoom out to show the dress and the shoes. The material of the dress and the covering of the shoes are of the same material. CU A pair of hands showing how to cover the shoes. SV A stand where a new machine for making dove-tailed joints in being demonstrated by two girls. CU The machine in action. CU Two pieces of wood cut in dove-tailed joints they are moved together and a mallet comes to hit them into position. CU The two pieces of wood joined and then hands try to pull them apart. CU Woman papering a ceiling using the new ceiling master. CU The woman, pan up to show her brushing paper on the ceiling. GV The woman pa
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