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Title: MACTAGGART AND MICKEL JOB STARTS AT CAMMO, WEST EDINBURGH

Reference number: 6245

Date: 1956

Director: [filmed by Douglas Mickel]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 2.18 mins

Description: Records MacTaggart and Mickel job starts housebuilding at the Cammo site, West Edinburgh, 1956. Colour footage towards end of film features good exterior shots of the various house styles produced.

See P/CN179. Film makers diary records detailed information such as location and date - this record features DWM ref 1956/1.

See also HOMEBUILDERS: Mactaggart and Mickel and the Scottish housebuilding industry ed. Miles Glendinning and Diane Watters, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, 1999. See p.147 for particular information on the Cammo housing development.

Shotlist: [Shotlisted from Betacam SP 597, manual control track]

(0.00) [b&w] no title credits, shots taken from moving car; c/u sign "Cammo Houses for Sale MacTaggart and Mickel Ltd" gvs building site, where land is levelled and marked out, shot of man driving earth moving machinery and digging soil in order to level land (0.43) gvs surveyors at work, measure a clearly marked area, probably destined to be a road or driveway (1.12) gvs earth moving machinery, levelling site (1.27) [col] exts newly completed houses showing different styles, includes brief shot of man bricklaying in foreground (1.48) [b&w] brief blurry shots, country road and street scenes with traffic as seen from moving car (2.18)