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Title: OFFICE HELENSBURGH FASLANE ‘AQUITANIA’ EARLY 1950

Reference number: 10446

Date: 1950

Director: filmed by Averil and Willie Murdoch

Sound: silent

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 3.31 mins

Description: Amateur footage of women working in an office in Glasgow city centre, and general views at Faslane on Gare Loch, including the liner Aquitania.

Shotlist: Shots of roses in a garden. Women working in an office, possibly the Scottish Boiler & General Insurance Company in St. Vincent Street, Glasgow. Women working at their typewriters, putting letters into pigeon-holes, walking about the office. Shots of women in swimming costumes getting out of a car at a rocky beach, walking down to the sea, in the water and getting dried. Brief shot of Helensburgh seafront. Long shots of liner Aquitania at Faslane, waiting to be broken up. High long shots of Faslane on Gare Loch, including floating dry-dock, naval vessels and submarine.