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Title: CONSTRUCTION OF THE FORTH ROAD BRIDGE

Reference number: 2222

Date: 1965

Director: d. Henry Cooper

Sponsor: Films of Scotland and the Forth Road Bridge Joint Board (incl. A.C.Bridge Co Ltd)

Production company: Campbell Harper Films

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 48 mins

Description: The engineering work-in-progress of the construction of the Forth Road Bridge.

See also alternative version ref. 2208 FORTH ROAD BRIDGE

Please note the viewing copy available is not broadcast standard and may display some visible defects such as flicker.

Credits: comm. R.B. Wood
nar. Bryden Murdoch
ph. Alan Harper, Ian Kennedy, Brian Easton
sd. Brian Henniker

Shotlist: Credits (0.20); Forth Rail Bridge - South Queensferry in foreground (0.36); Gv's vehicles boarding/disembarking ferry at Hawes Pier (1.30); Long shot pan through trees towards rail bridge (1.40); Map of artists impression of bridge (2.49); surveyor looking through theodolite (2.52); Long shot rail bridge through trees (2.55); Gv's construction site towers (4.02); Artist's impression main pier (4.17); Shots construction of S Pier (5.22); Shots of base section of towers (6.23); Drem: shots of gritting, zincing and painting girders (10.07); treated tower section August 1960 including shot of Foden lorry passing through Edinburgh (10.31); Shots of lowering towering sections and centre boxes including Gv's Forth Road bridge under progress (15.38); construction climbing structure and capping legs with cable saddle including Gv's 5 main tower (17.07); completed main two towers, June 1961 (17.22); Gv's erection of temporary catwalk ropes (including towing by tug "Inchkeith" [tug was based at Granton/Edinburgh] and background shots of minesweeper and tramp in Forth) (20.20); spinning main cable and erection of tramway including background shots of Port Edgar and cargo ships in Forth (29.21); Erection of suspended structure, tramway up to early 1963 and Gv's from Forth of work in progress (34.23); Shots of steelwork being lifted, lorries (36.50); Deck structure work (37.16); Gv's cars boarding ferry at Hawes, summer 1963 ferry "Queen Margaret" in Forth (37.41); deckwork, retightening cable belts (38.16); Gv's concreting (39.03); Gv's lifting last sections of top cord and bridge spanning river including shot of BP tanker passing below (40.44); Gv's welding and wrapping of main cables (41.00); Gv's preparation of roadways including crash barriers and asphalting (44.23); Aerial views completed bridge (44.49); Gv's Royal Opening, Queen Elizabeth, Willie Ross, Secretary of State opening bridge 4/9/64 - Queen's speech and view of plaque (46.12); Gv's approach roads to toll in Fife - aerial views of bridge in operation (47.31); Credits (48.00).