COLINTON BYPASS; MOTORWAY OPENING
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Title: COLINTON BYPASS; MOTORWAY OPENING
Reference number: 3691
Date: 1980*
Director: filmed by Mr J W Grant Dec'd.
Sound: silent
Original format: super 8mm
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 1.40 mins
Description: Film recording the opening ceremony of the Colinton bypass.
Shotlist:
[shotlist retimed from speed corrected tape, manual control track]
The End 1977 [Blank spacer] Lorry washing down the road. Bus pulling up to the side of the road. Cars parked along the road. People walking down the road (0.37) Crowd gathered around a white ribbon stretched across the road. Woman speaks, then cuts the ribbon (0.47) Lothian Regional Council. Colinton Bypass. Opened by Councillor Mrs C Filsell. Chairman Transportation Committee. 11.30am. Thursday 14 May 1981. B/W photograph of a single car going down the road (1.13) c/u Map of the area with the new bypass marked in (1.39)