A74 ROAD
Full length video
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Title: A74 ROAD
Reference number: 5119
Date: 1962c
Production company: [ Templar Film Studios]
Sound: mute
Original format: 16mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 3.04 mins
Description: Construction work on the A74, including some footage of laboratory testing carried out within the 'Scottish Home Department Roads Division Mobile Laboratory No. 1'.
Shotlist: gvs A74 under construction; (0.42) c/u unveiling A74 road sign, lorries driving onto new section of road; shots of lorries using overpass (1.22) construction work over railway (1.35) ints and exts "Scottish Home Department Roads Division Mobile Laboratory No. 1" portakabin with scientists doing tests (2.11) further shots of trunk road improvement, construction of dual carriageway by Dumfries County Council (2.41) sign for Abington Services and gvs construction work (3.04)