Antique Silver (1959)

The effort of giving back silver it’s shiny surface. Charterhouse Street, London. M/S of Laurie Langford, as he reaches over a huge heap of antique silver cups, candle sticks and fitments, all tarnished and dented. He picks out a candelabra and a silver jug. This is the vault of the Silver Galleries in London, where consignments of silver from various estates are brought each week for renovation and repair. M/S as the pieces are put into a container of cyanide liquid, which removes the dirt and grease. M/S of a small buffer with a hand holding a small tureen. M/S of the workshop which is full of very old specialised tools for working on silver. A man holds a silver teapot with a dented spout and he looks for the right tool, and having found it, he puts it into the vice and uses it to hammer out the dent. C/U hammering work on teapot spout. M/S of a man working at a large press, which has an arm on it with a round orange weight on it. He swings it violently into action and ducks to avoid the arm as it