Offbeat Display (1961)

NOTE - there is a longer version of this excellent story on tape PM2849 - image quality is much better. M/Ss of a man carrying a trombone case, walking up some steps and going into the Royal Albert Hall in Kensington, London. C/U of a poster advertising a concert performance of Handel’s Messiah by The Royal Choral Society, but commentator says “we haven’t come for a concert“. M/S as the man arrives at a display of nylon fabrics at the Nylon Fair (held annually at the Albert Hall); the material is draped over various brass instruments and he adds the trombone to the display. Another display is a tableau of period costume by lace manufacturers; modern perspex abstract mannequins with amazing nylon feathers and spiked perspex snowflakes for heads are dressed in costumes that show off the latest colours and designs of lace and revolve on turntables. Two (live) models in evening gowns look at the display (high hair and spidery eyelashes a-go-go). Perspex display dummies for ’Madame Pompadour’ (with a c