Our Business is Fun - ACE054.3

Painting by hand and with spray guns. Fowle’s VO explaining that they paint all boards in parallel, rather than in sequence, which makes the work more interesting and speeds up the process, and talks about blending colours. Fowle on the craftsmanship required in the factory. Edwin Hall, "the finest showman decorator there ever was", identified in Lakin’s photograph; Fowle says their social relationship helped him learning the work. Photographs of designs; Fowle says that Hall devised designs and patterns to suit the different machines. Fowle identifies photograph of Bill Baker painting horses. Photograph of dodgem car, based on a Vauxhall design. Photograph of man with funfair motor-cycle; another motor-bike. Fowle explains the help Hall gave him, and thinks some of his ideas came from the cinema. More photographs, caricatures from the war period. Fowle on Hall’s topicality. Applying aluminium leaf, and burnishing the finish. Fowle’s VO talking about how the silvering is handled.