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Title: GATEWAY OF THE WEST, the

Reference number: 0474

Date: 1937

Director: d. John C. Elder

Production company: GB Instructional

Sound: silent

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 10.00 mins

Description: Loading and unloading of goods at the docks in Glasgow, oil tanks on the lower reaches of the Clyde and the liner "City of Dieppe" being towed down river.

For review of film see Scottish Educational Film Review Volume 1, Review NO. 95. See Teaching notes.

Credits: ph. J Blake Dalrymple
dist. GB Equipments Limited
Made in collaboration with a panel of Scottish teachers

Shotlist: Credits (.28); Map showing the position of Glasgow on the Firth of Clyde. Diagram of docks (1.00); Aerial view of the docks. Shots of cattle being unloaded. Grain is unloaded in sacks and in bulk by suction. Mutton. Buyers examining apples on the quay. Esparto grass and timber being unloaded. Iron ore is transferred to railway wagons. Shots of oil tanks on the lower reaches of the Clyde. Railway tank-wagons (5.34); Coal being tipped into a ship's hold from railway wagon. A locomotive and a boiler are lifted on board ship (6.56); A bucket dredge at work. Shots of a liner, "City of Dieppe", and other vessels being towed down river (9.52); ecs (10.00)