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Title: OLD COLLEGE, the

Reference number: 1683

Date: 1957*

Sponsor: Glasgow University Graduates Association

Production company: Scottish Film Council

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 10.32 mins

Description: Glasgow University's Old College as seen through illustrations, paintings and photographs.

Credits: arranged by C A Oakley
ph. Frank M. Marshall
Additional film sequences and recording by Douglas Gray
comm. s. James Crampsey

Shotlist: Credits (.34); Shots of British Rail's College Goods Station in the High Street, Glasgow (1.00); Plaque commemorating the original siting of the gateway to Glasgow University (1.03); Shots of College Street (1.18); Picture of the same view in the late 1850's (1.33); Picture of Old Glasgow Bridge c1700 (1.44); Picture showing High Street, Glasgow Cathedral and the University (2.04); Shots of painting of Glasgow from the West, looking along Argyle Street and including the spires of the Tolbooth, Tron Church, St Andrew's Church and the Merchant's House Steeple (2.26); Picture of college gateway (2.37); Picture of Queen Victoria visiting the college 1849 (2.55); Paintings of the college, early Victorian (3.13); Pre-1670 drawing of the college including Blackfriar's Chapel (4.01); Drawing of Lion and Unicorn staircase (4.11); Paintings of the staircase in 1840 (4.31); Return to pre-1670 drawing of the college (4.47); Paintings of the inner quadrangle (5.06); Pre-15670 drawing of the college (5.07); Drawing of Professors' houses (5.16); Photo of the Hunterian Museum (5.29); Picture of the University gardens (5.39); Pre-1670 drawing (5.53); Painting of college church (5.58); Painting of an undergraduate 1844 (6.07); B & W photographs of various aspects of the college (7.43); Photo of members of the Senate in July 1870 (7.55); Drawing of the college after it moved to Gilmorehill (8.08); Shots of the new site and female students c1957 (8.27); Drawing of Pearce Lodge (8.31); Shot of students (8.45); Loving cup from Old College (8.53); Blackstone chair (9.04); Shot of Professor Forsythe examining a student sitting oral exam (9.30); Unicorn staircase in the new site (9.47); Shots of new university building at Gilmorehill (10.05); Shots of High Street (10.13); The End (10.32).