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Title: CROW, HAMILTON & CO., LTD.

Reference number: 7345

Date: 1961 - 1962 / 1969c

Director: [attributed to James Anderson]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 18.38 mins

Description: Construction work at new premises of Crow, Hamilton & Co Ltd., Haggs Road, Glasgow. General record of the building works. Display of electrochemical metal forming machines by Crow Hamilton & Co. Ltd. and John S. Young & Co., Ltd. at the new premises, speeches and lunch reception.

Shotlist: c/u piece of paper: 'Crow Hamilton & Co., Ltd, Barmax Works, Haggs Road, Glasgow' (0.07) Construction work at Crow, Hamilton & Co Ltd. Gv's of the engineering works. Gv's of the site, some construction work, digging channels, laying pipes etc (0.56) ints engineering workshop, shop floor (1.19) ints drawing room, engineers working on designs, including chief designer James Greenlees (1.30) rear view engineering workshop (2.01) exts site preparation and construction of new site (3.37) ints works (4.00) brief exts (4.09) ints engineering shop floor (4.24) ints drawing office (4.47) ints workmen finishing the painting in the new building, electrician at work on wiring (5.05) exts new site, spreading stone chips or aggregate (5.30) ints. construction work at new premises of Crow, Hamilton & Co Ltd., Haggs Road, Glasgow. General record of the building works. Display of electrochemical metal forming machines by Crow Hamilton & Co. Ltd. and John S. Young & Co., Ltd. at the new premises, speeches and lunch reception in new office space. People positioning new furniture, polishing and tidying. Shot of two men at desk discussing notes (5.59) exts, gvs earth moving (6.55) ints new workshop, empty (7.04) very brief shot man fixing cistern in toilet (7.08) ints engineering workshop (7.13) exts new building, before and after work completed (7.59) c/u leaflet for the 'Barmax Four Head Fully Automatic Electrochemical Metal Forming Machine' (8.07) exts Crow Hamilton's new premises (8.14) gvs same machine being built, electronics are tested, we see it on display at exhibition (13.01) 'Barmax Automatic Ultrasonic Flaw Detector' on display at exhibition (13.22) ints room, lady cleaning and preparing tables for event (13.29) chairs set out to receive speeches; ints tables set up for lunch reception with white linen and flowers (13.42) exts car park filled with cars, some young men in attendance for security / guidance (13.55) brief c/u political cartoon (14.16) men outside works dressed in suits, a photographer in attendance (15.13) c/u invitation 'Crow Hamilton & Co. Ltd. and John S. Young & Co., Ltd. invite you to a display of electrochemical metal forming machines and other equipment of their manufacture at Barmax Works, Haggs Road, Glasgow on Tuesday 16th October 1962 from 2pm to 8pm.' (15.21) ints exhibition, J.S. Young and Crow Hamilton stand at exhibition (17.05) exts by night and ints drinks reception, new Crow Hamilton Works (17.49) ints stand at exhibition, metal forming machine (18.14) exts of building, now empty. Sign on door reads 'Crow Hamilton & Co., Ltd. have moved to 248 Seaward Street, Glasgow' (18.38)