GLASGOW - THE CITY THAT WORKS
Malcolm Clerk, director of American engineering company Keystone describes why he has brought his business back to Glasgow from the USA. Footage of the works in action. (clip)
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Title: GLASGOW - THE CITY THAT WORKS
Reference number: 1961
Date: 1981
Director: p. Paddy Higson
Sponsor: City of Glasgow Council
Production company: QMR Productions
Sound: sound
Original format: 16mm
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 19 mins
Description: A look at economic investment in Glasgow, road transport improvement, industrial development, etc, intercut with shots of Glasgow streetscenes, businesses, colleges, etc.
Shotlist: fast tracking shots of motorways of Glasgow and Clyde Tunnel (0.38) title (0.42) stills from Glasgow's early industrial era (1.37) gvs Glasgow street traffic and pedestrians (2.18) talking head Lord Provost Dr Michael Kelly talking about economic investment in Glasgow and talking to an American businessmen and Chairman of British Caledonian Airways (3.53) talking head Malcolm Clerk, director of American engineering firm Keystone (4.22) shots of Keystone shopfloor (4.59) brief shots road traffic, air traffic, train and underground rail (7.35) lorry driver inside his cab talking about road transport improvement with the Glasgow motorway by-pass and shots of his lorry driving on motorway by Clyde past Dumbarton Rock (8.01) shots of container being lifted by crane off lorry (8.39) night shot of container being loaded onto aircraft at Prestwick airport (9.15) shots of electronic engineering at the No Fuse Circuit Breaker Company and of int. of factory (11.00) exts. of buildings of financial businesses in Glasgow including Scottish Amicable, Stenhouse, Standard Life and Clydesdale Bank (11.17) talking head CB General Manager William Beaton about banking in the city (12.16) shots of meeting of city council's economic development bureau (13.06) shot of the city's industrial development officer Stuart Logan in discussion (14.14) exts. new factory units with Prince Philip opening one of the factories (15.03) l/s Glasgow University and shots of buildings of Strathclyde University, College of Building and Printing, Central College of Commerce, College of Food Technology, College of Technology (15.39) Business School graduate in interview with industrialist (16.43) shot of people on city street (16.58) shots of golfers (17.13) panning shot of view of Glasgow with hills in b/g (17.23) yachting (17.40) visuals hills and Loch Katrine (18.20) night shot of traffic on motorway (18.34) ecs (18.45)