A THING OF SHREDS AND PATCHES: Being a Film Magazine from the West of Scotland
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Title: A THING OF SHREDS AND PATCHES: Being a Film Magazine from the West of Scotland
Reference number: 12150
Date: 1939
Sound: silent
Original format: 9.5mm
Colour: b/w
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 17.22 mins
Description: Amateur magazine programme made at the start of WW2, including footage of refuse collection and disposal in Glasgow, a steamer on the Forth and Clyde Canal and a montage of pre-war newspaper clippings.
Shotlist: title - gvs refuse collectors at work in Glasgow - refuse facility - piles of metal waste - refuse being burnt - cement blocks in use - gvs steamer Gipsy Queen on Forth and Clyde Canal, man operating bascule bridge, shots travelling on canal through Edinburgh, countryside, Kirkintilloch - people dancing on board - boys running along canal bank to catch money - Gipsy Queen at pier - gvs snow on suburban street and in countryside - children sledging - pre-war newspaper headlines and cartoons - section of comment about science and religion, unions and youth organisations - recruitment posters - gvs young boy, woman and man - woman feeding chickens - golden eagle, red squirrel - comedy sketch of man 'editing' film.