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Title: BLYTHSWOOD YARD

Reference number: 8472

Date: 1963c

Production company: Templar Film Studios

Sound: mute

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: Non-Fiction

Running time: 1.56 mins

Description: News footage of workers at the Blythswood Shipbuilding Company yard in Scotstoun finishing work on the lighthouse tender vessel mv 'Fingal' and working on the construction of mobile homes.

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Shotlist: [shotlisted from mini DV - manual control track]

[no title] - shot of mv Fingal on slipway at Blythswood Shipyard, Scotstoun, Glasgow - shots of worker using oxy-acetylene torch, workers attaching cables to tank for lifting, worker painting underside of ship - shot of bow of Fingal from below, pan round to steamer passing on Clyde - c/u of chalked message on wall of shop floor: 'BBC Wed 8.25 "McEwan and Tiny" alias "Steptoe and Son" also starring Kerrigan as "The Horse"' - gvs of workers on shop floor (1.25) gv of Blythswood Shipbuilding Company doorway on South Street - shots of workers manoeuvring large wooden mobile home into shed and pulling mobile home base into shed (1.56)