Metrication
Metrication; NAT (Rees,Norman)
ENGLAND
CMS Butcher sharpening knife
CMS Butcher using sharp knife to cut pork steaks
CMS Pakcet of pork steaks as label stuck on and packet put with others in tray
CMS Packet of ditto with 'Sainsburys' label
CMS Vox pops SOT
CMS Sainsbury leaflets on metrication as one taken
MS SIDE customers at meat shelves
CBV Man in cap looking at conversion table by chickens
TCMS SIDE woman looking at wrapped chicken
CMS Patrick Stanley (Sainsburys) intvw SOT
- Cannot see point of change which is going to cost and waste money
TMS Trays of loose potatoes as hand with shopping list takes bag of ditto away
MS Bag of potatoes put onto weighing scales PULL OUT woman looking at dial
CBV Man in hat and white overalls putting packets of meat on shelves
CMS Lable on packet 'Save 50p per Kg'
Cornwall
CMS Pint of beer on bar counter PULL OUT to Rees i/c SOT as adds lemonade to beer to make it a shandy which has to be sold in metric measure
EXT
Location Unknown
CMS Large sign unloaded from back of van
CMS Anti metrication sign
CMS Another ditto
CMS Bruce Robertson (Trago Mills Store group) intvw SOT
- Would brand any judges that dealt with him as traitors
INT
Location Unknown
MS Philip Crewdson towards in covered market and looks at sign on curtain stall
CBV Ditto
MS Crewdson talking to woman shopkeeper
MS Same woman unrolling material TILT DOWN as measuring it along gauge on counter edge TILT UP as she uses scissors to cut material edge then tears it
CMS Philip Crewdson (Trading Standards Officer) intvw SOT
- We will take soft approach/ Court proceedings would be a long way down the road
CMS Signs giving metric and imperial measures on material
TILT DOWN more ditto
Location Unknown
CMS Jonathan Evans (Consumer Affairs Minister) intvw SOT
- In terms of general weights and measures it is import...





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September 29, 1995
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- Meat,
- UK,
- 1990-1999,
- Adult,
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- At The Edge Of,
- Bag,
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- Bib Overalls,
- Brand Name,
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- Business Finance and Industry,
- Butcher,
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- Curtain,
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- Film - Moving Image,
- Finance,
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- Flyer - Leaflet,
- Gauge,
- Giving,
- Hand,
- Hat,
- ITV News At One,
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- Label,
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- Looking,
- Material,
- Men,
- Metric System,
- Moving Activity,
- Packet,
- Pint Glass,
- Pork,
- Pull Out - Camera Movement,
- Raw Footage,
- Real Time Video,
- Repetition,
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- Retail Occupation,
- Road,
- Rolled Up,
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- Sainsburys,
- Scissors,
- Sharpening,
- Shelf,
- Side View,
- Steak,
- Table,
- Talking,
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- Tilt Up,
- Tray,
- Unloading,
- Video with Sound,
- Weight Scale,
- Women,
- Wrapped,