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Title: STRATHCLYDE

Reference number: 5635

Date: 1973*

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 21.09 mins

Description: The many faces and aspects of the new region of Strathclyde from Argyllshire to Ayrshire and from Tiree to Glasgow.

Scottish Central Film Library (SCFL) catalogue entry 1976: 'The many faces and aspects of the new region of Strathclyde are featured in this film.'

Note from donor: '' ‘Strathclyde’: A film commissioned in 1974 by Geoff Shaw, Leader of Glasgow Corporation, who later became the first Convener of Strathclyde Regional Council. We filmed three schools and their catchment areas in what was to become Strathclyde as a focus for some of the issues that would affect the new region. The schools were Oban High School, Columba High School in Coatbridge and Irvine Royal Academy.''

Shotlist: title - Duart Castle, Mull (0.19) Hunterston Power Station, dam in Stirlingshire (0.32) various secondary school pupils (0.50) Land Rover on Tiree, Lachie McFadyen shovelling hay, looking after cattle. Gvs croft, boat with creels in harbour. Lachie collecting seaweed (1.39) ext. Hebridean knitwear factory, young people walking (1.50) forestry in Argyllshire. Bernadette Armstrong walking from house in Dalavich (2.40) gvs Oban (3.05) brief shot of glass blowing (3.10) Oban High School, gvs Oban hotels, restaurants etc (3.36) gvs steelworks. School pupil Rosemary Parr wandering through and describing scenes of industrial dereliction in Coatbridge left by heavy iron and steel industry (5.02) model of Monklands shopping centre, site of new sports facility, greenway leading to Drumpellier Park (5.25) boy fishing (5.35) people boarding train to Glasgow. A725 road to Coatbridge (5.54) freight terminal with train link, brief shot Ladybird children's clothing factory (6.18) aerial view of Irvine and c/u sign 'Welcome to the Royal Burgh of Irvine', statue Burns, gvs town and new developments alongside old. School pupils from Irvine Royal Academy, Sheila Alexander, Shona Steel, Jane Keenan, Tom Gillies, Stewart Griffiths in town voicing opinion (9.10) map Strathclyde consisting of old counties of Argyllshire, Dunbartonshire, Renfrewshire, Lanarkshire, Buteshire and Ayrshire which now form Strathclyde Region (9.40) buses, plane, boats (10.14) pupils carrying luggage boarding steamer to Oban. Coaches and accommodation for them on mainland (11.38) pupils on board small boat (11.43) Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Executive buses in city centre. Ian McFatridge from Oban i/vs Andrew Mackay, Director of Planning GGPTE, intercut with shots of buses and trains t/out Strathclyde (14.00) map of 19 districts comprising region (14.15) pan shot Coatbridge, zoom in on housing. Gvs housing, multi-storey blocks, shops (15.40) Daria McBrinn i/vs Reg Ward of Coatbridge Town Council (16.45) golf course in Ayrshire, Hunterston peninsula and industrial development of two major power stations. School pupils Richard Howitt and Jan Gallacher discuss pros and cons of development (18.27) ext building Ayrshire County Council, Richard and Jan i/v James Miller, Deputy County Clerk (20.15) gvs region and map (21.09)