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Title: "QUEEN MARY" LEAVES THE CLYDE

Reference number: 1391

Date: 1936

Director: [filmed by Dr. John Humble]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 2.47 mins

Description: RMS "Queen Mary" sails past Dumbarton Rock accompanied by tugs on her maiden voyage.

Humble papers deposited in National Library of Scotland. Further information can be found at https://manuscripts.nls.uk/agents/57836?agent_type=agent_person [last accessed 26/08/2021]
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Shotlist: No credits. Shots of family posing for camera in house (0.34); Shot from train going west along north side of the River Clyde. Shot across to John Brown's yard, Clydebank. Shot down to lock at the entrance to the Forth and Clyde Canal, Bowling, and of sand flats on Firth (0.52); Shots from Dumbarton Rock of the "Queen Mary" approaching (jumps in sequence). Close-up as vessel passes the camera (2.43); Shots of spectators intercut with views of the vessel - Profile of paddle steamer passing - Crowd shots (3.34)