Rubber Armour (1958)

Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire. M/S of a room full of armour, swords and shields. There is a full suit of armour on the left and Mr Francis Buckeridge aged 36 is stood at a table working on an old fashioned pistol, a 17th Century Side Arm. His son Peter aged 10 is sat at the table watching him. Francis puts the gun down and Peter stirs the rubber in a pot. Francis picks up a mould and pours in the liquid rubber from the pot. C/U of him pouring the rubber from a small jug into the mould. C/U of Francis’s face and C/U of him swirling the rubber around in the mould. M/S of Peter examining a glove from a suit of armour and looking at a book about armour on the desk. M/S of Francis at the table with a plaster mould of the Side Arm, he takes the string from around the mould and takes one half away to reveal the rubber pistol, the mould is designed so that the pistol is hollow. He takes the gun out of the mould and examines it. C/U of the finished pistol, he trims off the rough edges. C/U of his f