Model Villages (1962)

Southport, Merseyside. M/S of Mr. T. F. Dobbins, designer of ’The Land of the Little People’, sitting outside at a drawing board. C/U of Mr. D. drawing a line with a ruler across his design. Extreme C/U of a design of a house. Mr. D. picks up his design and walks out of shot. M/S of two men working on models of houses, Mr. D. enters and talks to one of them, Bill Dutton. C/U of Bill laying a roof on a model house. Extreme C/U of the roof tiles. C/U of Mr. D. using his ruler to check the measurements of the model house’s front window. M/S of another man, possibly Bill Rimmer, fitting glass into the window of a modern model house. M/S of young Barry Sutton painting model figures, Charles Ellison walks into shot with fresh models for him to paint. C/U of Barry painting the model. M/S of Peter Sutton placing a model pleasure boat into the pond in front of a model house. Panning shot from the immaculate miniature garden of a model house, to Charles at work in a neighbouring g
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