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Title: LAMPLIGHTER, the

Reference number: 1500

Date: 1956

Director: [filmed by Stanley L. Russell]

Production company: Thames and Clyde

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 4.00 mins

Description: Dramatisation of Robert Louis Stevenson's poem where a small boy watches the leerie doing his rounds lighting gas street lamps.

Dramatisation of R. L. Stevenson's poem filmed by Stanley L. Russell using family and friends. Shot in the Hillhead/Dowanhill area of the West End of Glasgow - interiors only. Exterior shot of house in Mannering Road, Shawlands, Glasgow. The wee boy at the window is Grant Anderson who lived across the road.

Credits: A Thames and Clyde Film

Shotlist: Credits. A small boy's voice recites the poem "The Lamplighter" as the leerie does his rounds lighting the gas street lamps (4.00)