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Title: SLATE TRADE CRUISE ON 'DUCHESS OF HAMILTON'

Reference number: 6247

Date: 1962, May

Director: [filmed by Douglas Mickel]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 2.45 mins

Description: A cruise on the 'Duchess of Hamilton'. Starts by showing a sunken tug 'Forager', and includes passengers sightseeing at Brodick Castle and various passing shots ships (possibly the 'Empress of England'?).

See P/CN179. Film makers diary records detailed information such as location and date - this record features DWM ref 165/6.

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.

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

(0.00) no title credits, passing shot from aboard the 'Duchess of Hamilton' steamer showing the tips of funnels of a sunken tug, 'Forager' at Braehead power station; gvs as seen from aboard ship, including 'Empress of Canada'? and a bulk tanker (0.32) deck shots, ladies sitting, man enjoys cigarette, [possibly Douglas Mickel's father, Andrew Mickel?] (0.48) disembarking at Brodick, sightseeing at Brodick Castle [exts only] and gardens including various c/u flowers (1.49) gvs as seen from aboard ship, including whitewashed lighthouse and seagulls (2.24) gvs upon leaving Gourock pier, passing shot cargo ship 'City of Lichfield' (2.45)