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Promo for Irvine new town - typically aimed at a North American audience - remember we need Inward Investment the key industrial policy for four post war decades.
In trying hard, too hard, to be relaxed, cool and contemporary it does avoid classic promo film clichés - but it also manages to avoid most of the New Town of Irvine - avoids Irvine’s modern housing and avoids meeting any of the displaced Glaswegians that populated the place by this time.
One Day in Irvine
- Date: 1971
- Director: d. Mark Littlewood
- Ref No: 2237
- Genre: sponsored
- documentary
- promotional
- Film For Hire: No
- Video For Sale: No
- Sound: sound
- Running Time: 20.43 mins
- Fiction: Non-Fiction
- Colour: col
Original Format: 35mm
Sponsor: sp. Films of Scotland and Irvine Development Corporation
- Production Company: p.c. IFA (Scotland) Ltd.
Credits: cast Paul Young, Virginia Stark ph. Mark Littlewood sc. Charles Gormley m. comp. & cond. Andy Parr
Additional Information: The Ayrshire town of Irvine as seen through the eyes of a young Canadian.
One Day in Irvine
Shotlist:
No opening credits. Shots of man in a rowing boat as it passes tugs Garnock and Dagger and cabin cruiser Gannet. [Title] Shot of a moored boat (1.47) gvs Irvine from the sea and along Hill Place. The Glasgow Vennel, Plaque on building stating that Robert Burns once slept there (3.10) gvs churchyard (4.52) Shots of the Marymass Festival procession and fair (6.00) Shots of Irvine (6.30) gvs foundry, knitwear factory and Ayrshire Metal Products Ltd. (9.40) Shots of bottle factory (10.25) Wheatfield and livestock (11.00) Ayr race course. Shots of a rugby match, golfing and manufacture of golf clubs at Walter Hogan Ltd. (12.57) Haystacks and potato farming (13.30) Shots of Burns’ orig. manuscript for the Cotter's Saturday Night in museum (15.06) Eglinton Castle and grounds moving onto Wilson’s pet food factory with int shots of the cutting up of meat(16.27) shots of schools and Prestwick airport (17.58) gvs docks, the MV Volente and MV Lady Roslin. views of Irvine and the beach (20.06) ecs (20.43)