Guitar Factory (1965)

Romford, Essex. Various shots of guitars being made at a factory in Romford. Good C, Us of craftsmen at work and of the guitars taking shape. Narrator says that guitar making is enjoying a boom in Britain because of the Beat Groups. The guitars are electric guitars and a dozen different craftsmen will work on each one all this to make a bedlam of adolescent noise says the narrator. He makes a gag about how expensive the guitars are, leaving musicians with no money to have a haircut. Some of the guitars are sprayed bright red and hung up to dry. Guitars are strung. They are Burns guitars. Man tests the sound quality of a guitar with special equipment. Narrator quips: Surprising when you consider the noise they make that each and every guitar is scientifically tuned just as if they were REAL musical instruments The guitars are then burnished to a high gloss lovely David Michael from the Unit Four Plus Two takes one of the guitars and strums it cue for a song, see next record f