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Title: GLASGOW "DISCARDS"

Reference number: 1484

Date: 1968 - 1971

Director: [filmed by Willie and Averil Murdoch]

Sound: silent

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 52.15 mins

Description: Glasgow scenes including shots of tenements, the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow Green, St. Enoch's Station, Sauchiehall Street, Paddy's Market, the University, Templeton's carpet factory and Kelvingrove Art Gallery.

Shotlist: [shotlisted from speed corrected VHS at 18fps, manual control track]

REEL I [1968]
[no title or credits] General views of Eastwood district (?). Brief shot of Round Toll near Pollok Park. exts 'Old Coach Inn', gvs old and new buildings, some in state of disrepair and dereliction. "Keep Britain Tidy" and Butlins posters. Further shots of Round Toll, Shawbridge Street; (2.15) multiple shots of Esso's 'Put A Tiger in your Tank' advert on hoardings at roadside (2.47) exts Esso's terminal at Bowling (3.35) steam train on bridge (3.40) -blank- (3.49) Glasgow street scenes. George Square, Ingram Street, Bothwell Street, the "Barras", gardens, children at exterior of church of Govanhill (6.11) unidentified bingo hall (6.33) Queen's Park bandstand, where people enjoy an outdoor concert, and gvs floral displays [Maxwell Park] (7.02) brief shot River Clyde (7.05) exts Waterloo Street bus station, Cathedral Street, an electric train, shots of tenements (8.14) exts Daily Record building 'Record House', Victoria Park and fossil grove (9.13) Citizens Theatre, Palace Theatre, a bingo hall, the Molendinar, Glasgow Green (10.15) Orange Lodge hall, ext. College of Commerce (10.40) a protest march (Postmen's Strike), St Enoch's Station, Charing Cross, Bedford Cinema, Charing Cross (12.46) very brief tracking shot through the Clyde Tunnel (12.48) Postmen's Strike Sauchiehall Street gvs same exts New Bedford Cinema, Charing Cross as seen looking from West End side, exiting the Clyde Tunnel (14.04) River Clyde, passenger steamer "Queen Mary II", exterior of Queen's Park High parish church, "Queen Mary" on the Clyde, gvs George Square (16.07) the "Barras", children playing nearby (16.36) Shots of gardens, a plane, and the fossil grove. River Clyde (17.32) pony rides, Queen's Park bandstand, St Andrew's church (18.04) St. Enoch's Square (18.57) Clyde tunnel, brief ext. Teachers Centre (Glasgow Corporation Education Department); Forth and Clyde canal, tenements, George Square decorated with Christmas lights (21.47) v. [dark] ints subway (22.27) -blank- (22.32) exts pub, Pollokshaws, high rise flats near the Round Toll, exts Pollok House and gardens (23.58) very brief exterior of church, (24.03) brief street scenes in Argyle Street, Renfield Street, Blythswood Square, Charing Cross, Sauchiehall Street, George Square (25.17) -blank- (25.38) shots of construction sites; children playing on concrete pipes (26.13) children in the playpark in Kelvingrove Park, on the roundabout and slide (26.57) -blank- (27.09) exts. Alhambra Theatre; hoardings advertising Cilla Black in "Startime", beside a pelican crossing (27.30) construction of Kingston bridge, (27.39) Kelvin Way and Kelvingrove park ; Glasgow Green (29.56) tenements in the Gorbals (30.23) pan over Clyde at Molendinar; brief shot of Glasgow Green (31.11) ms family walking through Richmond Park (31.29) ls construction of Kingston bridge (31.35) c/u red wool spelling out "The End" (31.36) Sauchiehall Street decorated for Christmas, during the day (32.06) cars driving out of Millbrae, (32.32) Kingston bridge, near completion (33.04) Molendinar; family crossing a bridge; unid. building (33.31), Paddy's Market, (33.45) Round Toll. (33.55)

REEL II [1971]
No credits. Eastwood; empty suburban street; freight crossing a rail bridge (0.24) Anderston church (0.59) Parkhead Cross (1.13) University of Glasgow, with silver cup superimposed; pedestrians and people sitting on benches by bowling greens; (1.49) Kelvingrove Art Gallery (1.59) -blank- (2.02) Glasgow University, ls taken beside Kelvin Hall (2.31) College for Weaving Trades; College of Building and Printing Annex (3.00) Templeton's Carpet Factory (3.28) Pollokshaws rooftops (4.04) George Square, Queen Street Station. (4.29) Victoria Park, people walking around fossil grove. [30/7/1965](5.20) Demolition of Thornliebank House Rouken Glen park. [1963] (9.39) c/u sign "Fare Station"; street scene at Trongate; ints. tram, c/u advert for "Glasgow's Last Tram" pasted on window (10.12) Tracking shots from top deck, passing Partick Hill Station; c/u No. 9 Auchenshuggle tram; truncated tram tracks; further tracking shots including Central station (10.44) ints. clippie taking fares; exts. No. changing over at terminus (11.12) Dalmuir junction; tracking shots from tram (11.58) -blank- (12.02) shots from the "Last Tram" procession; (13.08) Sentimental Journey c/u sign "Cars Stop here if Required"; shots of the number 9, passengers alighting, tacking shots; c/u tram 1174; ints tram staff taking tram home (14.29) shots of film bill "A View From The Bridge" [Arthur Miller]; (14.34) No. 9 tram; shots of tram road signs "Fare Station", etc. (15.06) brief ints. tram; No 9 passing Kelvingrove Museum; film maker walking along tram lines (15.42) tracking shot "Barrowland" sign (16.09) shots from "Last Tram" procession, trams with lighting on in the twilight; crowds dispersing (17.24) -blank- (17.32) tracking shots from tram's top deck (17.54) [dark] "Last Tram" procession, spectators jostling in foreground (18.20)