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Title: COMET FESTIVAL 1998

Reference number: 10619

Date: 1998

Sponsor: Inverclyde Council, Department of Leisure & Recreation

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 31.55 mins

Description: The Comet Festival of 1988, Port Glasgow.

5HCV was a projected funded by Manpower in the 1980’s. 5 HCV was a local community video service for the Hospitalised, Housebound, Handicapped, and Hard of Hearing. An off-shoot from hospital radio, 5HCV was a voluntary organisation who, in conjunction with the Recreational Service’s Video Production Unit (RSVP), made a weekly video tape featuring local people and local events and information. These tapes were distributed around local hospitals, community centres, and to the housebound.

See National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive Paper Archive series 3/13 for accompanying programme booklets.

Shotlist: black, colour bars [mute until 2.38] (0.14) Title (.24) The Festival theme for 1998 was "Photography and the Electronic Image" This gave the float parade and shop window entrants a wide choice of display styles. Once again the response was better than expected. (.49) Comet Festival 1998 Car Boot Sale Saturday 18th July 98 (1.00) Guess what? It rained again (1.15) close shots older women counting pens and selling tickets from a table (1.36) gvs people browsing tables of bric-a-brac (2.16) Comet Festival 1998 Bonnie Baby Competition Is there such a thing ? (2.38) c/u mothers and babies; Willie Stewart has a quick word with each guardian (5.13) gvs prizes are awarded (6.48) l/s children's fashion show [low fps gives jumpy look; mute until 8.03] (7.26) Bonnie Baby Competition (7.36) Music under the spire (7.40) tilt down spire; gvs children learning breakdancing in Cathcart Square (8.18) l/s man addresses crowd about Tall ships event planned in 1999, intercut stills of the crowd (9.13) gv's breakdancers to 'Pump up the Volume' and other tracks [solarised, posterised, animated frame effects] (14.38) Glen Michael brought his Cartoon Cavalcade to Port Glasgow on Tuesday 21st, July... Due to Copyright restrictions we do not have any Video Coverage of this event (14.51) Shop Window Competition (14.55) gvs displays showing the Festival theme, pans of competing shop fronts inset [mute until 18.25] (15.31) gvs displays in Gregg's, Fotoshop Express, Margaret's [haberdashery?] and Scott's fishmonger (17.35) Country and Western Dance (17.46) inset gvs goods for sale (18.29) ints. participants chatting, most in various historical costume; flags on wall (19.02) ints. small group line dancing to band "State Line" on stage [various effects] (20.12) high shot large group line dancing (20.56) l/s "gun fight" game (21.48) l/s singer; gv's dancers (23.28) Comet Festival 1998 Senior Citizen's Variety Show by Invitation only Free buses courtesy of Samuel McPherson Sponsored by G & E Graham (23.49) l/s comic Tina Turner impersonator (30.59) RSVP (31.55)