Historic Film Aka National Film Archives (1963)

National Film Archive, Aston Clinton, London. Shots from very early news reel (Pathe s own) of the 1896 Derby. Intertitle The Queen God Bless Her. More very old shots of a royal parade. C, U of a reel of 35 mm film on a winding bench. C, U of a clipping being taken from the film. The clipping is dropped into a test tube to be analysed for signs of deterioration. An alizarinred indicator is tucked into the tubes if it bleaches the film is badly deteriorating. M, S of a white coated archivist taking cans of film from shelves in a vault. C, U of an old projector in action. Shots from the 1913 version of Hamlet starring Sir Johnstone Forbes Robertson. C, U of an archivist holding a piece of film up to the light. M, S of the archivist at a winding bench, he is measuring a piece of ageing, shrunken film. Some shots of a handcoloured Pathe fashion item from 1912. Various C, U of film so badly damaged the image is removed like a transfer by floating it in a bath of gelatine and then placed bet