GLENBOIG CLAYWORKS
Full length video
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Title: GLENBOIG CLAYWORKS
Reference number: 3048
Date: 1935
Director: filmed by Alexander McKendrik
Sound: silent
Original format: 16mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 7.23 mins
Description:
Clay being mined and firebricks being moulded at Glenboig Clayworks, Lanarkshire.
Made by managing director of Glenboig Brickworks.
Shotlist: panning shot of clayworks and men at work at head of mineshaft, tipping out clay from barrows (0.52) inside mine with shot of pit pony and men at work, carrying open? flame lights (1.20) two men putting set of lights (?) into van (1.39) head of mineshaft and c/u equipment and c/u men shovelling clay onto wheelbarrows and tipping it into machinery where clay is then mixed (3.50) clay being cut into bricks by machine and panning shot of rows of finished bricks (4.51) bricks being taken off machine (5.19) bricks being hand-made (5.43) c/u clay being put into moulds (7.23)