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Title: BLIZZARD, FEBRUARY 1947

Reference number: 1070

Date: 1947

Director: [filmed by William S. Manson]

Sound: silent

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 4 mins,c

Description: Shots of Kirkintilloch during a winter snowfall; its streets, park and boatyard on the Forth and Clyde Canal.

Shotlist: [Shotlisted from time-coded VHS copy, times converted from 25fps to 18fps]

Title. [B/W] (0.04) Shots of Kirkintilloch streets during winter snow fall, children throwing snowballs. General views of Industry Street, including shot of Dalrymple Fountain, Lenzie Road, Townhead looking north, and then south. (1.44) Townhead Bridge with the parish church in the background. (1.56) Hays boatyard on the Forth and Clyde Canal. (2.03) The Cowgate, with shot of Watson Fountain; the war memorial gates in Peel Park. (3.05) Looking down High Street from Peel Brae. (3.21) Looking south along Cowgate. (3.40) [Col.] Townhead, traffic at Kirkintilloch Cross; Lawson's bus and Co-op horse-drawn bakery van (4.32)