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Title: ROAD HEATING - THE MOUND

Reference number: 5854

Date: 1948

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 5.46 mins

Description: The laying of heating cable below the road surface of the Mound in Edinburgh, and the official opening ceremony.

Shotlist: pan shot of Princes Street (0.11) shot of road works on the Mound, gvs of men laying wires (0.42) gvs of road works (1.30) pan of street past Wm. Allan Smith & Co. Ltd van (1.34) shot of men lacing cables between clips, across the road (1.57) shot of jumble of wires and pavement (2.12) road is then tarmacked, and clips are removed (3.37) gvs of Edinburgh city centre streets (3.56) Other side of The Mound is resurfaced with tarmac strengthened with stone fragments and flattened by steam-roller (4.46) shots taken at roadside of large machine with 'South Scotland Electricity Board' written on side, man makes a speech and flicks the lever (5.28) shot of road with traffic (5.46)