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Title: JOHN BROWN: The Man Who Drew A Legend

Reference number: 4996

Date: 1995

Director: [d. Mark Littlewood]

Sponsor: [ Scottish Television]

Production company: [ Pelicula Films]

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 25.50 mins

Description: Introduced by the journalist Jack Webster, this is the story of John Brown and the ships he helped design at John Brown & Co Shipyard, Clydebank. The film concentrates on the history of the Queen Mary, upon the 59th Anniversary of her launch, celebrated in California, where she now resides as a hotel and tourist attraction. Includes much archive footage of the Queen Mary, the shipyard and interviews with John Brown to illustrate the story.

Working title: John Brown

Synopsis from British Film Institute catalogue: ''A profile of naval architect John Brown from Glasgow who has designed some of the world's biggest luxury liners. In this programme he visits his most famous ship the Queen Mary, now a hotel and tourist attraction in California. (Synopsis)''

Credits: [ph. Mark Littlewood]
[written by Jack Webster]
[ed. Neil Castell]

Shotlist: gvs Queen Mary in dock and gvs gathering of people to celebrate 59th anniversary of the Queen Mary's launch, including Clydebank's provost Alasdair MacDonald, chief architect and designer, John Brown, shipwright George Keene, electrical engineer, Ron Winter and journalist Jack Webster (1.38) c/u John Brown's face (1.52) Jack Webster introduces film standing at John Brown's Shipyard (2.12) ints ship where Jack Webster makes a speech about his experience of travelling on the Queen Mary (2.37) assorted archive film with Jack Webster talking about first Transatlantic voyage from Southampton (3.54) Jack Webster to camera (4.14) exts Queen Mary (4.38) John Brown making speech about his initial plans (5.22) assorted archive film showing launch of Queen Mary on Wednesday September 26th 1934, includes Queen's speech (7.34) shot of now empty dock, ruined slipway where launch took place (8.29) Jack Webster to camera (8.53) shot of John Brown walking down a crowded Glasgow street (9.11) interview with John Brown talking about the design process, intercut with b&w archive footage of the drawing room and the shipyard with construction work underway, and newspaper cuttings bringing news of stoppage of construction in 1931 (10.32) Jack Webster to camera, intercut with archive footage of the liner Queen Mary being built again, resuming in 1934 (11.41) interview with John Brown, regarding the naming of the ship (12.39) c/u still photograph of ship, archive footage of model ship under experimental trials, of sea trials of actual ship and of ship leaving for Southampton (14.59) c/u model of Queen Mary, commentary has story of John Brown in charge of design team at age of 28, working on design for Queen Elizabeth; archive footage of launch of Elizabeth in 1938 under camouflage and Queen Mary & Elizabeth in New York (16.55) archive footage of submarine, the Queen Mary and Elizabeth as troopships, Winston Churchill, Clydebank bombing, American GI's travelling home at the end of war, ints luxury Queen Mary, various famous characters, such as the Windsors and Fred Astaire (20.24) shots of liner Queen Elizabeth in 1972, mysteriously burnt and sunk in Hong Kong (20.59) exts liner Queen Mary, now a hotel and tourist attraction on Long Beach, California and general celebrations that the ship has been 'saved'; includes shot of George Keene, former apprentice on Queen Mary (22.36) gvs speech by Provost Alasdair MacDonald and shot of John Brown gifting his set of instruments used to design Queen Mary (23.37) ints ship's bridge with John Brown looking around (24.21) exts Queen Mary now and an emotional John Brown having a last look (25.50)