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Unusual colour amateur home movie taken at the 1938 Empire Exhibition in Glasgow. The design of the pavilions, influenced as much by ocean liner and locomotive design of the time as by contemporary architecture, was to influence the post war planning a decade later.

Empire Exhibition

  • Date: 1938
  • Director: [filmed by James Blair]
  • Ref No: 0065
  • Genre: amateur
  • Film For Hire: No
  • Video For Sale: No
  • Sound: silent
  • Running Time: 13.00 mins
  • Fiction: unknown
  • Colour: col
  • Original Format: 16mm
  • Sponsor: unknown
  • Production Company: unknown Additional Information: Rare colour footage of the Empire Exhibition, Bellahouston Park, Glasgow and of the first major dancing water displays ever built.

Empire Exhibition

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No credits. Amateur footage of the Empire Exhibition in Bellahouston Park, Glasgow, includes shots of the various pavilions, visitors and events (6.50); display at night of the dancing waters and illuminations (12.30)

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