Incomplete colour promotional film demonstrating cleanable covers for the Toothill Chair, an upholstered Danish style comfortable modern armchair. The film shows the choice of fabric designs, wear, tear and staining of the tailored removable fabric covers. A couple demonstrate in a family lounge. Includes good scene of two children messing up the seat with chocolates. Possibly made for R W Toothill Furniture Manufacturers, then based in Darlington, who patented the covers in the 1950s. The...

Incomplete colour promotional film demonstrating cleanable covers for the Toothill Chair, an upholstered Danish style comfortable modern armchair. The film shows the choice of fabric designs, wear, tear and staining of the tailored removable fabric covers. A couple demonstrate in a family lounge. Includes good scene of two children messing up the seat with chocolates. Possibly made for R W Toothill Furniture Manufacturers, then based in Darlington, who patented the covers in the 1950s. The film opens with a still of a fabric pattern used for the Toothill Chair. A man in a suit walks into a living room and takes a seat in one of two upholstered teak framed Toothill armchairs.  An elegantly dressed and made-up woman joins him in the other armchair, cradling her cat.  The man leans over and ruffles the cat's fur. Suddenly, a pile of soot drops froms the chimney onto the hearth. The man and woman jump up quickly.  He brushes soot from his trousers and shoes.  The pile of soot lays on the fireplace hearth. Close-up of the woman brushing away soot from one of the Toothill Chair seats.  The cloth and her hands are black from the soot. Next, there is a close-up of the man's hand holding a glass of sherry, which he accidently spills on the armchair.  He mops up the wet stain on the seat. A figure (glimpsed only) walks past the armchair and tips over an ashtray of cigarette stubs and ash onto the seat. The elegantly dressed woman sips a cup of tea.  She accidently spills tea onto the chair. Close-up of tea dripping onto the red-patterned seat cover. Two baby girls in identical dress pick at chocolates left on the arm of an armchair.  Close-up of the armchair seat as they start to rub the chocolate into the seat.  One of the girls licks her fingers and looks towards camera innocently .  Portrait shot of her chocolate-smeared face.  One of the two girls pops a chocolate back into the box. A hand rips dates from a paper tear-off calendar starting on the page for Wednesday January 13th. Time moves on.  Close-up of the dirty material of the cover on the Toothill Chair. The elegantly dressed woman, now wearing a gingham apron, unbuttons and removes the cover easily. In the next shot, the same woman is now wearing a dark pencil skirt and pale blouse. She parcels up the removable covers in brown paper to send to the dry cleaners. Now back in the elegant dress and gingham apron she was wearing previously, the woman demonstrates the good-as-new condition of the covers by holding them up to camera.  She then puts them back onto the Toothill Chair.  Shot of the Toothill Chair with pristine covers, arranged in a living room set, next to a bookcase. The next shots illustrate the design components of the Toothill Chair and the variety of patterns available for the tailored covers, as follows: wooden framework of armchair; support webbing; section of the fire retardant foam cushions; complete chair posed on a highly patterned carpet; page turner of pattern samples for the tailored armchair covers.  The variety of patterns are then depicted on the Toothill Chair in a sequence of different staged living room sets.