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More support for the consensus - fixing Glasgow’s problems will be best served by planning to cream off its skilled work force, encourage businesses to leave and - all wrapped up in a schools geography movie.
Central Scotland
- Date: 1962
- Director: d. Douglas Gray
- Ref No: 1810
- Genre: educational; documentary; sponsored; industrial
- Film For Hire: No
- Video For Sale: No
- Sound: sound
- Running Time: 19.59 mins
- Fiction: Non-Fiction
- Colour: col
- Original Format: 16mm
- Sponsor: sp. Educational Films of Scotland
- Production Company: p.c. Park Film Studios Ltd.
- Credits: nar. John Shedden
- Educational advisor W.G.Beaton anim. Edward Odling
- Additional Information: A regional geography film covering the area bounded by lines from Stonehaven to Helensburgh and Girvan to Dunbar. It looks at various industries in this central belt - steel, engineering, shipbuilding, thread and textiles, coal, electricity, oil, plastics, and farming (cereals, dairy and berry) See also ref. 0587 CENTRAL SCOTLAND for different version.
- Teaching notes.
- Cataloguer’s comments: Several striking things about this film:-
- The tone of this film is very optimistic in new housing development and the idea of siphoning people off from overcrowded cities to new towns like East Kilbride, as if the housing problem was finally being solved for once and for all.
- Footage of Glasgow housing demolition
- The shots of street scenes (particularly in Glasgow) are very interesting in that one can see the extent to which things have changed - shop facades, clothing fashions, buses, road traffic and its regulation regulation, even overhead tram cables are visible (see St. Vincent street)
- Overall, this film presents central Scotland as a hive of industry. Paisley Mill - now a derelict building, Paisley is no longer famous for its thread.
Central Scotland
Shotlist:
Opening credits (0.13) map of central Scotland (0.46) gvs Princes Street, Edinburgh, busy with people and traffic (1.05) brief shot of Edinburgh Castle, gv over city form the ramparts followed by shots of St. Giles Church, taken from the street (1.27) shots of the general assembly of Church of Scotland procession (1.53) aerial views over the city of Dundee followed by street scene showing people, shop fronts and traffic (2.13) aerial view over George Square, Glasgow followed by shot of large ship being tugged into Glasgow’s docklands (2.33) brief shots of shipbuilders at work (2.45) brief street scene of Paisley followed by shots inside a steelworks factory at Glasgow, then shots of ship engine parts (4.20) panning shot over shipyards (4.57) ints motor vehicle factory (5.35) ints Glasgow chain-making works (6.06) ints cotton thread mill in Paisley showing woman at work and the machinery (6.41) ints linoleum factory in Kirkcaldy showing materials and machinery (7.34) brief shot newspaper seller on street, brief ints and exts of various factories in central Scotland e.g. Ferranti, an electronics factory, shots of land being cleared so a new factory can be built (8.50) ints cash register factory at Dundee, showing men and women at work (9.40) panning shot over Glasgow’s industrial landscape followed by shots of housing demolition in Glasgow, then shots of new multi-storey blocks of flats being built (10.30) shots of Great Western Road - school pupils crossing road onto Bank street (en route to Hillhead School perhaps) at pelican crossing while policeman holds up traffic. Shop facades are visible. Shot of St. Vincent street as buses pass by, tram cables are in view overhead (11.00) street scene in Kirkintilloch, including shot of a road repair worker in a demob suit (11.23) street scenes in East Kilbride, including shot of babies in twin pram, followed by int. of a primary classroom showing girls knitting (11.50) ext. coal mine with miners leaving (12.27) l/s Kincardine power station followed by shot of Finnart oil terminal, then brief shot of road oil tanker lorry (13.01) gvs Grangemouth docks, ships cranes and cargo are shown (13.59) gvs Glasgow docks showing iron ore being discharged from ship (14.33) gvs wheat, oats and barely harvesting in fields by combine harvester(15.45) gvs dairy cows in field in Ayrshire followed by gvs at glasshouse tomato farm in Clyde valley, Lanark (16.41) gvs berry picking in Angus followed by gvs inside a Blairgowrie raspberry canary, showing women at work (17.58) ints. of offices showing women working at typewriters, brief shot of hovercraft testing on Gairloch, brief shot huge electricity transformer being transported by road (19.08) gvs Glasgow docklands then l/s of liner (19.38) ecs (19.59)