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Tour of building construction and Scottish Arts Council office space. Begins with laughter, a shot of a woman sitting cross-legged at a desk with 2 typewriters as she looks towards the handheld camera in a cluttered office space with small windows. She scolds "Tom" and answers the telephone as the "Scottish Arts Council". At the 34 sec mark, there is a cut to a men moving in corridor, then an open space with raw bricks, construction sounds, and pans towards holes in a ceiling-in-progress. Cuts, pans and zooms across the space reveal the construction and expansion of the interior of a large space lit with work-lighting. Throughout most of the film, there are shots of men working, laying and stacking brick, hammering and wheeling, and spinning cement. There are shots of scaffolding that stretch towards an exterior. Most of the footage is darkly lit, permeated only at instances of the natural light coming in from gaps in the construction. At the 10 min, 33 sec mark, it is too dark to discern any image. At the 11 min mark, there is a cut to black. A tracking wave at 11 min, 13 sec reveals 3 women in an office, 2 stationary at desks with phones and 1 moving around and preparing coffee. There is no sound to accompany the image of the office space. Ends with a zoomed-in shot of a woman at a desk in the background as she flips through a book. A women in the foreground moves forward with coffee, obscuring and blurring the frame. There is a jarred camera movement as it struggles to gain focus before the footage cuts.