Fur Museum Aka Fur Repairs (1957)

Bishopsgate, London. C/U of a damaged section of a fur coat. M/S of Ben Herman, the son of the firm’s founder, examining the damaged fur which is stretched out on a table surrounded by bundles of old fur coats. Ben takes another fur from a rail and holds it next to the damaged fur. Having rejected this fur, Ben selects another and matches it to the damaged fur. C/U showing the similarity of the two specimens. The narrator explains that this is the repair workshop of a “fur matchers“ - one of only a few in this country. Ben uses a large razor blade to cut a strip from the fur. C/U of the new strip being held next to the damaged section. C/U of a peer’s coronet lying on a red velvet cloak - a peer’s mantle. A hand comes into frame and lays a small bundle of ermine tails next to the coronet. M/S of Philip Herman, Ben’s brother, selecting ermine tails and laying them against the collar of the mantle. C/U of the tails being placed on the collar. The narrator makes a joke about “how little respect