Ideal Home Exhibition (1966)

Kensington, London and Surrey. The Exhibition Centre at Olympia is transformed for the Ideal Home Exhibition - a look at some of the preparations and results. Various shots of a caretaker sweeping up bits of paper around empty dog baskets. L/S of Olympia’s vast but empty exhibition centre - men are clearing up the aftermath of Crufts. Tracking shot going in the main entrance and panning around the centre. Various shots of sets being built, three men look over the plans for the next exhibition. Various shots of builder building the brick walls of the house exhibits. Various shots of decorators painting fibreglass sheets yellow inside a designer’s studio in Surrey. M/S of designer, David Gillespie, being past sheets of coloured fibreglass by an assistant. Another of Gillespie’s assistants is seen working on transparent fibreglass in a lattice pattern. C/U of Gillespie working on his design, he takes a small sheet and adds it to his fibreglass model. C/U on the exhibition designs, C/U o