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Title: FIRE SERVICE AT PRESTWICK AIRPORT

Reference number: 8449

Date: 1963

Production company: [ Templar Film Studios]

Sound: mute

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: Non-Fiction

Running time: 3.09 mins

Description: News footage of the construction of a new building at Prestwick Airport, a new remote controlled fire station and Orangefield, part of the old terminal building at the airport.

[Please note the viewing copy may display some visible defects such as flicker.]

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

[no title] - shots of new Prestwick Airport control tower and old terminal building with previous control tower in roof - shots of early construction phase of new buildings - gvs concrete frames and workmen preparing shutter work, concrete with reinforcing rods - gvs with JCB levelling ground for building - shot of fire station building, doors roll up and Bedford and other fire engines drive out (1.34) shots of officer at control desk, taking emergency call and operating radio and electronically controlled doors - gvs of fire station building and 'Aerodrome Fire Service' van - shots of doorway of Orangefield, previously Monkton House, and c/u shots of Robert Burns quotation inscribed above doorway, 'A pleasant spot near sandy wilds' (3.09)