Full record for 'GREAT GLASGOW FIRES'

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Locations:

  • Glasgow

Subjects:

  • Media, communication and the creative industries

Genres:

  • Newsreel

People/organisations:

  • Green's Film Service / Green's Topical Productions

Decade:

  • 1920s

Title: GREAT GLASGOW FIRES

Reference number: 1733

Date: 1925, July

Production company: [ Green's Film Service, Glasgow and London]

Sound: silent

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 3.50 mins

Description: Coverage of the fire at the Kelvin Hall and Kelvingrove UF Church, Glasgow.

Credits: "Green's Film Service, Glasgow and London" written on end credit.
[camera Alf Le Verne]

Shotlist: Credits (.13); Exclusive pictures taken by Green's staff cameraman at the great conflagrations at Kelvin Hall and College and Kelvingrove UF Church. Shots of crowds outside the Kelvin Hall as firemen fight blaze. Shots of blazing facade. Shots of crowds. Shot of burnt out framework of building (1.54); College and Kelvingrove UF Church notice board. Shots of church on fire as firemen tackle the flames (2.20); End credits (2.22).

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