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Title: 1959 SCOTTISH INDUSTRIES EXHIBITION, the

Reference number: 1109

Date: 1959

Sponsor: Council of Management

Production company: Glasgow Films Limited

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 17.21 mins

Description: Scenes of the Scottish Industries Exhibition at the Kelvin Hall, Glasgow in 1959. Princess Margaret opens the event.

See also ref 4289 and ref 0470 for more footage of the Scottish Industries Exhibition.

Credits: sp. Council of Management [1959 Scottish Industries Exhibition] [possibly BBC news film?]

Shotlist: No credits. Shot of exterior of Glasgow University with pan to commentator standing in front of Kelvin Hall (0.43) ints. exhibition in Kelvin Hall and iv. with General Manager, Matthew Donaldson (3.03) ints. of wine cellar (3.23) iv. with Matthew Neil (5.12) [blank] (5.25) shots of the platform party. Lord Polwarth welcomes Princess Margaret to open the exhibition (6.21) ls Princess Margaret delivers opening speech. [Mute] royal party tours exhibition (8.44) ext. shot of City Chambers, and shots of the Princess leaving by car in direction of North Frederick Street (9.01) [s/t returns] [blank] (9.15) ints of exhibition (9.38) iv. with Charles Oakley (10.25) iv. with a representative of the Gypsum panel stand (10.51) iv. with a representative from an engineering stand (11.24) iv. with a visitor from Nigeria (11.45) iv. with representative from engineering stand with sound recordist from the welding stand (12.24) int. with interpreter (12.52) shots at the rail-van stand (13.24) brief interviews with exhibitors concerning the orders they have taken during the course of the exhibition (15.12) iv. with a member of the British Institute of Management (15.38) iv. with representative of Flexi-tubing (16.49) iv. with a representative from the Scottish Council of Development and Industry (17.21)