Fish Leather (1949)

Fish leather. Mitcham, Surrey. M/S piles of Grimsby fish boxes full of fish skins. They go through a series of treatments which turns them into leather like material. This is the brain wave of two men Stanislaw Czuba and Witold Euncewicz. M/S as they examine the skins, one brushes the leather and machines polish it. M/S as it is covered with gold leaf or silver. M/S of strips of it hanging up on a rail. M/S of woman wearing belt made from the material, another has shoes and a handbag fashioned from it. Various shots of a lady wearing a dress which has a fitted top made from the material. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), E