Ex Servicemen Create Plastic Dolls AKA Ex Servicemen Make Dolls (1940)

Unused, unissued material dates and locations may be unclear, unknown. Australian newsreel item, full title reads: For crippled children: ExServicemen Create Plastic Dolls. 1949 Melbourne, Australia MS Hand scooping plastic powder out of a sack to make dolls in exservicemen Ken and Geoff Hutchens plasticmoulding partnership with Dutch merchant navy man, Theo Shirrman. MS Hand putting powder into moulds. CU Machine pressing out dolls legs etc. (3 shots). MS A woman lining up the dolls legs from the moulds. CU Pan over dolls legs. CU Pan along row of dolls heads. CU Dolls eyes on brackets. MS Man fitting eyes into dolls head. CU Head with eyes opening and shutting. MS Diana, the walking doll, in various outfits. (4 shots). MS The three exservicemen carrying a basket full of dolls into the Orthopaedic Ward of Melbourne s Children s Hospital. MS and CU The servicemen handing out dolls to delighted children, the you