REPORT ON CLOSURE OF EDINBURGH BREWERY
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Title: REPORT ON CLOSURE OF EDINBURGH BREWERY
Reference number: T1254
Date: [1971]
Production company: STV
Sound: sound
Original format: 16mm
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 2:10 mins
Description: The end of an era. Campbell Hope and Kings brewery in Edinburgh, the oldest brewery in Scotland, having been following a family recipe since 1710, is to close. Such is the price of progress when beer from the cooper's barrel is not as convenient as lager from an aluminium one.
Shotlist: Reporter standing in a part of the brewery (0.17) Men moving the barrels and loading them onto a truck (1.05) Pan the brewery buildings, v/o gives history of the brewery (1.29) Gvs men at work (2.04) Reporter swigs back a beer (2.10)