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Title: RAW MATERIALS

Reference number: 0502

Date: 1937

Director: d. J.C. Elder

Production company: GB Instructional Ltd.

Sound: silent

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 8.00 mins

Description: A look at coal mining and iron works in Scotland, as suppliers to power stations and Clydeside factories.

For review of film see Scottish Educational Film Review volume 1, Review No. 62. See Teaching notes.

This film can be viewed on BFI Player at http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-raw-materials-1936/ [last accessed 8/5/2017]

Credits: Industrial Scotland Series
ph. J Blake Dalrymple
Made in collaboration with a panel of Scottish teachers.
Distributed by G B Equipments Limited

Shotlist: Credits (.11) Map of Scotland showing distribution of coal fields (1.08) shots of coal mine, pit head and cage, and operating mechanism (1.55) Shots of miners working underground (2.38) Loaded tips reach the surface, steam locomotive pulls train load away (3.24) Exterior Clyde Valley generating station. Shots of interior. Electricity pylons (3.52) Map showing iron and steel and shipbuilding towns (4.39) Gvs interior of iron works, a furnace, moulds being prepared in sand, molten metal running into moulds and then being cooled and broken down into bars (7.56) Close-up locomotive wheels (8.03) End credits (8.13).