KELVINGROVE PARK
Full length video
Please read Understanding catalogue records for help interpreting this information and Using footage for more information about accessing this film.
Title: KELVINGROVE PARK
Reference number: 2673
Date: 1978
Director: filmed by Harry Birrell
Sound: sound
Original format: 16mm
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 7.33 mins
Description: A study of skateboarders using the old skating course in Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow; action has been set to music from the ballet Swan Lake. The course shown in this film was dismantled a few years later, however a replacement was opened on the same site in 2004.
Shotlist: Credits (0.13) gvs Kelvingrove Park with shots of people sitting on benches and walking through the park (1.47) shots of skateboarders on concrete skateboarding structures in the park; skating over concrete courses named "The Bazooka", "The Cobra" and "Jaws", intercut with skaters negotiating a slalom and half-pipe [some shots in slow motion] (7.17) The End