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Oor Ain Film Archive is a film preservation and screen heritage project celebrating Hawick and Scottish Borders communities on film.  

Scottish Woollens (This Week in Britain)

Short
Knitwear/Woollen Mills

Date: 1959

Location: UK
Language: Portuguese
Duration: 00:04:07
Audio: MONO
Access: Descriptive subtitles
Source: Gerald Graham, Hawick Archaeological Society

'Digitally scanned from 16mm by Transfermagic, 2021

Synopsis

‘”Scottish Woollens” is an entry in This Week in Britain, the Central Office of Information’s long-running weekly magazine series produced for overseas distribution between 1959 and 1980. This particular four-minute episode, presented in Portuguese for Brazilian audiences, focuses on Pringle of Scotland and features designer Stuart Beaty alongside model and future Hawick Provost Zandra Elliot.

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