SHIPBUILDING

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Title: SHIPBUILDING

Reference number: 5350

Date: 1959 c

Production company: [ Templar Film Studios]

Sound: silent

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 6.03 mins

Description: Queen Elizabeth launches a large BP ship "British Queen" at John Brown's shipyard, Clydebank.

Production footage from ref. 2230

See also refs. 2230 and 5351

Shotlist: m/s gvs large crowd gathered in shipyard - Queen Elizabeth waves to crowd as the royal entourage walks through yard onto podium. She presses button to launch ship "British Queen, London" (1.41) ship slides down slipway; m/s ship in water; extreme l/s of this ship launch again - it is subsequently manoeuvered by tugs (3.51) m/s "British Queen" in dock (4.00) shot of this launch from yet another angle - aerial m/s. Tugs manoeuver ship into dock at John Brown's , Clydebank (6.03)