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Title: OIL, LAND, PEOPLE, SCOTLAND

Reference number: 4326

Date: 1976

Production company: Prater Wolchover Productions

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 14.57 mins

Description: An overview of the oil industry in Scotland and its effects on local economies in the North East.

Credits: sc. The Scottish Information Office
nar. James Cairncross
original presentation by Prater Wolchover Productions, February 1976
revised presentation by Graphics Group, Planning Services Division, Scottish Development Department

Shotlist: title (0.34) shot of standing stones (0.51) beach scene in the North of Scotland (1.03) shot of castle (1.20) animated diagram showing use of natural resources such as forests and coal (2.39) stills of oil development in the North Sea (3.37) c/u North Sea Oil and Gas Coastal Planning Guidelines 1974 (3.47) refinery, overland pipes shown (4.21) Hound Point on the Firth of Forth, includes shot of Forth Bridges (4.44) diagram and aerial Aberdeen Harbour, includes stills, ships etc (6.13) stills on land hotels, offices, houses (6.47) gvs Peterhead supply base (8.07) St. Fergus and gas compressor station (8.47) shot of Nigg Bay dry dock (9.08) gvs nearby pipe coating plant (9.44) housing in the area, including all wood Norwegian houses at Alness (10.08) exts Alness community centre (10.20) diagram showing where similiar development occured, showing Tain, Invergordon, Nigg, Cromarty, Evanton, Alness (10.30) concrete platform under construction at a deep sea loch at Ardynt, Argyll (11.44) platform construction and shots of shipyards on Clydeside (12.08) Scapa Flow oil terminal on Orkney; Sumburgh Airport on Shetland, views of Lerwick supply bases, construction of Sullom Voe (13.53) gvs general Scottish landscape and seascapes (14.38) ecs (14.57)