LAUNCH OF PADDLE STEAMER "GLEN GOWER"
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Title: LAUNCH OF PADDLE STEAMER "GLEN GOWER"
Reference number: 1543
Date: 1922, February 22
Sponsor: P. & A. Campbell
Production company: Gaumont
Sound: silent
Original format: 35mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 3.30 mins
Description: Launch of the paddle steamer "Glen Gower" at Troon. Built for P. & A. Campbell Ltd., Bristol, by the Ailsa Shipbuilding Company.
Shotlist: Credits (.11); Launch of paddle steamer "Glen Gower" at Troon. Built for P & A Campbell Ltd., Bristol, by Ailsa Shipbuilding Company. Shots of launch party and guests arriving at the yard and mounting the launch platform (.35); General views of launch. Shots from platform as vessel moves down the slipway and into the water (1.12); Side angle shot of same (1.41); Paddle tug "Troon" tows the "Glen Gower" away [to fitting-out basin] (2.19); Incomplete. Mrs Alec Campbell launched vessel.