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Title: OLD BRIDGE AND THE NEW, the

Reference number: 7388

Date: 1967

Director: filmed by David Steele

Sound: silent

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: Non-Fiction

Running time: 8.35 mins

Description: The construction and opening of a new pedestrian bridge over the River Esk at Musselburgh in 1967, and the demolition of the previous 19th century footbridge.

Shotlist: [shot-listed from DV - manual control track]

[no title] - gvs of construction of new bridge over River Esk at Musselburgh - men working on foundation piles, residents watching - gvs pile-driving machine at work - men delivering cement sacks from back of truck - shots of van belonging to contractor Bierrum (0.57) gvs workers constructing formwork for concrete and fixing metal reinforcing bars - concrete being poured into hopper truck, lifted by crane and poured into caisson (2.22) workers tying reinforcing bars - shots of old pedestrian bridge with people walking across - workers pinning boards on new bridge and tying more bars (4.18) shots of hopper truck driving up partially completed bridge - concrete poured into caisson - wooden spars and boards fitted - shots of concrete being redistributed across surface - shots of workers on partially finished bridge (6.06) workers painting railing on new bridge - 'Road Closed' sign on old bridge - gv two bridges - PROVEST WHITE GIVING THE OLD BRIDGE ITS HISTORY - gvs crowds watching as Provost cuts tape to open new bridge - Provost and residents walk across - gvs two bridges together and pedestrians walking across (7.31) gvs of the old bridge being demolished using oxyacetylene torches, sections thrown into river - crane lorry collecting scrap girders from bank (8.35)