Novelty Decorations (1959)

Kingston, Surrey. M/S Adrian Marchant, looking like a teenager, working with blocks of polystyrene, cutting it with a hot wire. C/U foam being cut. M/S of the workshop for making window dressings, and shop window displays, with C/U of a woman holding a block of foam as she sculpts it. She paints the plastic foam with a glue and then sticks on a pink glitter fabric. It will be for a huge decorative costume mask. Two women are seen working on a moulding, putting papier mache into it. At last rather wobbly duck shape is removed from a mould, and the women are seen painting some white. C/U shots of the duck’s white face and yellow beak as flock sprinkles are applied for a fluffy effect. Next a hand picks up a black paper cut out for the duck’s eye. She then fixes a crown or hat at an angle and lines it up with several others, already completed, all with hats. Two men are seen making a shape from chicken wire, and a girl adds tissue paper to one chicken wire figure. C/U shot of the figure being painted,