POWER FOR THE HIGHLANDS
Full length video
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Title: POWER FOR THE HIGHLANDS
Reference number: 0279
Date: 1943
Director: d. Jack Chambers
Sponsor: MOI for the Scottish Office
Production company: Paul Rotha Productions
Sound: sound
Original format: 35mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 15.24 mins
Description: A look at the possibilities of Hydro-Electric power for the Highlands.
Credits:
p. Paul Rotha
story Jack Chambers
dialogue Neil Gunn and Roger MacDougall
ph. Wolfgang Suschitzky
music Ian Whyte
conductor Muir Mathieson
unit manager Duncan Ross
Shotlist:
Credits (.10) Gvs Highland countryside. Shots of train crossing viaduct (1.20) A soldier, a sailor, an engineer and a ghillie travelling on the train discuss the future of the Highlands and hydro-electric power. Gvs Highlands (4.30) Soldier gets off train and returns to his croft (6.37) Shots of drifters and unloading of fish (7.36) The engineer drives up in a car and the ghillie gets out. They continue their discussion about hydro-electric power. Shots Highland scenery (9.24) Ghillie meets two US soldiers who tell him about Tennessee Valley HEP . Shots of Tennessee Valley and civil engineering developments (11.02) Engineer sighting through theodolite. More shots Highland scenery (12.35) Gvs earth moving, construction of dam, various industries and possibilities for the future (14.55) End credits (15.10)
Running time approx 15 minutes