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Title: WAY IT WAS, the

Reference number: 21038

Date: 1998

Production company: Grampian Television

Sound: sound

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 53.12 mins

Description: Programme transmitted 20/11/98 - items on aircraft, Longman airport, Inverurie ID Hospital 1950, Coronation Day 1953.

Programme tx 22/11/98 - items on Scottish Society for the Mentally Handicapped, Moncrieffe

Credits: presenter Gerry Davis
taking part Janet McBain, Jim Milne, Jim Glennie, Hugh Stuart

Shotlist: Aircraft/ Inverurie
(00.00.00) ocs various pieces of footage The Way It Was (00.00.23) Gerry Davis intros show and guests Janet McBain and Jim Milne (00.02.32) brief i/v with Jim Milne, aviation enthusiast, about early aircraft in north-east Scotland (00.04.15) (b&w) clip of 'Inauguration of first Highland Air Service' 0646, 1933 (00.06.26) clip of first Highland Air Service mail flight, from 'Wotherspoon Family 1934-1936' 3563, 1934-1936 (00.08.36) further discussion with Jim Milne (00.11.08) Gerry intros and i/vs Jim Glennie, chairman of Garrioch Heritage Society, near Inverurie, discuss films he has brought (b&w) clip of Inverurie I.D. Hospital on Nurses' 'Passing Out Day' 1950, (col) a staff Christmas party, no date given, (col) a parade on day of death of George VI, 1952, (col) followed by coronation parade and ball, 1953, (col) gvs around Inverurie and Aberdeen, (col) Inverurie Academy Sports Day, no date given, (col) Kintore being granted Coat of Arms, 1959, none of clips in catalogue (00.20.17) further discussion (00.23.08) Gerry intros competition (b&w) snd clip from Pathe Newsreel of Germany's declaration of surrender, 1945 (00.23.53) ecs (00.25.34)

Scottish Society for the Mentally Handicapped/ Moncrieffe
ocs various pieces of footage The Way It Was (00.27.34) Gerry Davis intros show and guests Janet McBain and Hugh Stuart (00.30.09) i/v with Hugh Stuart, deputy director of Enable, formerly Scottish Society for Mentally Handicapped Children, discuss the organisation (00.31.31) (b&w) clip from 'Handicapped but Happy' 1579, 1962 (00.39.18) further i/v with Hugh Stuart about developments in treatment of people with disabilities (00.42.30) Gerry reports from Moncrieffe's family seat in Perthshire (00.44.59) (b&w) clip of Moncrieffe family and house, not in catalogue, early 1930s (00.49.57) Gerry and Janet discuss film (00.51.01) Gerry intros competition (b&w) snd clip from Pathe Newsreel introducing new British fighter planes, 1939-45? (00.51.43) ecs (00.53.12)