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Company seeks lift from Hollywood film role

THE director of a Scottish family business has Hollywood in his sights after seeing stairlifts supplied by his firm feature in blockbuster movie Cloud Atlas, starring Jim Broadbent, Tom Hanks and Halle Berry.

BLOCKBUSTER: Halle Berry and Keith David star in Cloud Atlas. Caltech Lifts provided two stairlifts as props for the film. Picture: Jamie Simpson.
BLOCKBUSTER: Halle Berry and Keith David star in Cloud Atlas. Caltech Lifts provided two stairlifts as props for the film. Picture: Jamie Simpson.

Dundee-based Caltech Lifts said yesterday that it had been asked in August 2011 by Carrie Garner, assistant set director (UK) for Cloud Atlas, to supply two stairlifts as props for a three-day location shoot at Overtoun House, Dunbartonshire.

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