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Title: KILMARNOCK DEMOLITION

Reference number: 5571

Date: 1976

Production company: [ Templar Films]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 13.34 mins

Description: Demolition, by controlled explosion, of two cooling towers in Kilmarnock [believed to be for the power station at Greenholm Street]

Shotlist: Workmen looking at plans before checking structure which has plastic explosive (?) around base (1.40) shots of two cooling towers from various angles in Kilmarnock including riverbank, road and underneath railway bridge (4.38) boarding up and covering up of various buildings with blue tarpaulins, covering up of immediate cooling towers area with scaffolding and green tarps (6.00) pan shot of demolished towers and scattered rubble from various angles (6.50) c/u workmen, single shot two towers (7.32) one tower begins to collapse, spreading a large dust cloud (8.15) same with second tower. Aftermath of demolition (9.55) workmen planting explosive for subsequent demolition of another tower, a tall and thin conical structure (13.32)