Research Into Hair (1960)

M/S in hair dressing salon at Beecham Laboratories in Brentford, Middlesex; two women at the left are sitting under hairdryers, a woman at the right is having her hair set and a man comes into shot to take the middle seat. M/S as a barber fits a circular apparatus to the man’s shoulders - it looks like a basketball hoop. C/Us as he places a piece of white fabric over it and fastens it round the man’s neck (presumably to catch the cut hair), and of various hair cutting instruments on a table as a hand comes into shot and picks up some electric clippers. C/Us as the barber clips the man’s hair, then of the table as he replaces the clippers and picks up a pair of scissors and comb; the man’s hair being cut and the hair falling on the white fabric. M/S as the hair cut is finished; C/U as the barber brushes the cut hair into a pile on the fabric and takes off the apparatus. Commentator says “These cuttings are then subjected to tests to discover the effects on hair structure and growth that have been prod