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Title: CITY SIDELIGHTS NO. 4

Reference number: 0330

Date: 1956 - 1958

Sponsor: Cosmo Cinema, Glasgow

Production company: Elder Film Productions

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 12.10 mins

Description: One of a series of five magazine films of Glasgow. Includes footage of macaroni and semolina being made in a Glasgow factory, students work at the Scottish Hotel School and trams around Trongate.

Original nitrate preserved at the NFTVA.

For other titles in the 'City Sidelights' series, see also refs. 0123, 0328, 0379 and 5376

Credits: The Fourth in a Series of Magazine Films about the City and People of Glasgow

Made and distributed by Elder Film Productions, Glasgow
comm. w. Pharic McLaren
comm. s. A Campbell Hastie
sd. C Leghorn, Messrs A Bigga
m. West of Scotland Orchestral Society

Shotlist: Credits (0.22) Tron Steeple at Glasgow Cross. Shots of tram and trolley bus. The Mercat Cross. Trams (0.52) George Square, Scott statue and cenotaph (1.34) Gvs various animals in zoo (4.50) Made in Glasgow. Interior Glasgow macaroni factory. [James Marshall's Macaroni factory] Semolina is sieved and mixed with water. Macaroni is collected and placed in drying room. Spaghetti is extruded. Macaroni is packed (7.10) Chef prepares macaroni as part of demonstration for students of the Scottish Hotel School in Glasgow. Demonstration by pastry cook. Students at work (9.20) Students are instructed in table service (10.32) Waitress collects meal from kitchen. Students at lecture. Reception hall (11.48) ecs (12.10)