Beer Bottle Tops (1968)

Ealing, London. C/U of a bottle of beer being opened; an elderly man, Tom Williams, pours the beer into a glass in his workroom. We then see several shots of Tom at work, making models out of millions of beer bottle tops. He threads yellow ones together to make a lady in a crinoline dress (the head is made of some other material and has a face painted on it). Various shots show Tom’s recreation of the Lord Mayor’s Show, complete with ’golden’ bottle top carriage and spectators; it took 3,500 bottle tops and over eighty hours of work to complete! M/S of a bottle top steam train made from 2,000 bottle tops. Note: there are notes and correspondence on file. Cuts exist - see separate record. 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 c