Bullet Proof Vest (1961)

Greenford, Middlesex. Exterior. M/S of a man in a trilby aiming and firing a revolver at the camera. M/S, taken from behind the man, as he fires at a tailor’s dummy wearing a bullet proof vest while another man looks on. C/U of the bullet hitting the bullet proof vest. The marksman stops firing and the two men unfasten and inspect the vest. They are at the West London Shooting Grounds - “this is the only firing-range of its kind in Britain - a testing-ground for armoured waistcoats“. C/U of the men looking for bullet marks inside the vest - it “doesn’t even need darning“. Acton Lane, Chiswick, West London. Interior. C/U of a man having his chest and waist measured by a tailor (possibly Leonard Barret) - “the tailor’s shop in London where these reassuring garments are made is so exclusive it doesn’t even show a name outside“. C/U of the tailor writing on a note pad next to his tape measure and clippers. M/S of the tailor fitting the “high-tensile alloy that goes inside the heavy lined canva