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Title: DOBSON'S OF EDINBURGH

Reference number: 2055

Date: 1967

Production company: [ Campbell Harper Films Ltd.]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 32 mins

Description: Film of Dobson's of Edinburgh construction company at work. [Rushes only].

8 reels (rushes). Mute pos. never located. Possibly unfinished production. Dobson's of Edinburgh Construction Company: film of company at work.

Shotlist: shotlisted from the cutting copy [record 2]
[no credits] l/s over landscape (East Lothian?) with zoom in to area of derelict land, shots of ruined building, wildflowers (1.28) shot of digger trucks from Dobson's Construction Co. Ltd working on building site (1.55) [stills] piles of rocks and rubble (2.27) gvs construction lorries and diggers at work (3.25) shots of underground piping network being put in place (for drainage/sewage purposes?) (5.10) surveyor measuring height for building purposes ? with triangulation equipment (5.15) shots of engineers and workmen manoeuvering cylindrical tanks by crane into pit, the cranes from Bernard Hunter Crane Hire, Leith (8.30) [still] workmen digging (8.34) shots of piping network and plumbing, now covered in soil (9.11) gvs metal frame of building under construction, includes shots of men balanced on 'roof', fixing steel beams in position (12.15) [stills] various shots of construction work on foundations and brickwork (13.17) gvs bricklaying up walls of steel structure, starting to cover over roof with corrugated iron (14.20) shots of cement pouring out of mixer and being laid on interior floor (15.20) workmen lay cement for brick path outside building (15.51) shots of materials used in creating roof, workmen carrying roofing slates and fixing in position (20.01) l/s pan over landscape (20.35) tipper, digger and caterpiller trucks at work on construction site, moving soil and rubble (25.45) huge pipes are hoisted and fixed to interior roof (26.58) line of thick copper 'tape' is nailed and screwed into position in trench (28.48) c/u technical drawing (29.07) aerial? fixed to roof labelled as radioactive (29.39) shots outside building, a workman lays sand down (30.30) ints building with piles of sand and other materials (31.12) exts gvs construction of another building (39.28) ints welding (39.50) dumper truck deposits gravel, roller smooths over, shots of concrete being smoothed, brushed and covered over by workmen (41.45) crane is used to create another steel structure (42.36) gvs construction around entrance to building, workmen painting saliding doors to building (42.20) ints fittings attached to roof (44.43) l/s over town and completed (factory or warehouse?) buildings (45.24)