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Title: WAY IT WAS, the

Reference number: 21036

Date: 1998

Production company: Grampian Television

Sound: sound

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 25.32 mins

Description: Items on Forfar and Aberdeen Fire Brigade.

Credits: presenter Gerry Davis
taking part Janet McBain,Ally Roebuck, Dennis Scott

Shotlist: Forfar Boys Brigade/ Aberdeen Fire Brigade
(00.00.00) ocs various pieces of footage The Way It Was (00.00.23) Gerry Davis intros show and guests Janet McBain and Ally Roebuck (00.02.08) brief i/v with Ally Roebuck about Forfar (00.03.18) Gerry reports from Forfar, outside now abandoned St James Church, which used to host Forfar Boys Brigade (00.04.03) (col) clip of Forfar Boys Brigade in 1960s, brought by Ally Roebuck who commentates, [not in catalogue] (00.09.20) Gerry reports from Inverwarrity (sp?) castle, featured in film, now restored (00.09.58) Gerry intros Dennis Scott (00.11.56) i/v with Dennis Scott, archivist of Grampian Fire Brigade (00.12.53) (col) clips of Aberdeen Fire Brigade in action, from Dennis Scott's collection, not in catalogue, 1960 (00.19.49) further discussion (00.23.31) Gerry intros competition (b&w) snd clip from Pathe Newsreel of manufacturers of steel hats, to be issued to fire watchers, and on sale to general public 1941 (00.24.10) ecs (00.25.32)