Miniature Clocks (1960)

M/S of a collection of miniature clocks on a sideboard; one of the clocks is in the shape of an aeroplane engine with propeller. C/U panning shot to show these in more detail. C/U of Stanley Wise of Sunbury on Thames working on one of the clocks. The commentator tells us that Mr Wise is a former Squadron Leader who flew on the famous bombing raid to Constantinople in 1917 as co-pilot to Sir John Alcock. It was as a prisoner-of-war in the same year that he took up the hobby of making miniature clocks and is the author of several books on the subject. C/U of a pendulum in his hands that he seems to be measuring with a pair of dividers. M/S of him bending over his work on the clock at a table; he is wearing an eye glass. C/Us of the piece of equipment he is working on with tweezers, Mr W looking down wearing the eye glass, a spring being added to the equipment. M/Ss and C/Us of him bending over the equipment and working on it, removing and replacing his eye glass. Extreme C/U of the miniature cl