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Title: COMMUNITY HOUSE

Reference number: 2345

Date: 1967

Production company: [ Templar Film Studios]

Sound: mute

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 15 mins

Description: Members of staff and various activities at the Iona Community House in its old premises in Clyde Street, in Glasgow. [Rushes only].

Shotlist: No credits. Exterior of Community House, Clyde Street, Glasgow. Shots along riverside c/u traffic on bridges and University tower, behind a tenement building (2.12 ); Interiors of Community House, shots of members and staff at prayer meeting (2.42) ints Library c/u book "The City of God" etc. shots of readers, and South Portland Street bridge, with trains passing over the Caledonian bridge in the background [some repeated shots] (4.20) Shot of board with that days activities including "Trade Union Forum" "AA" and "1:00 Worship daily" , c/u "Gamblers anonymous"(4.36)c/u GA handbook (4.49) shot of Iona Community Publishing Group Department display c/u book "We shall Re-build" (5.06) ints cafe, c/u pie, girl drinking, mural of Charity with contemporary images of poor (7.28). Meeting (Trade Union forum?) (8.45) prayer meeting of young people (9.15) Meeting, minister and group of people inspect model of building and plans (10.29) Scottish Committee of War on Want in session. c/u poster on door: "120 die of hunger every 15 minutes" c/u poster on table "Christmas in Slums ... Shelter" (11.22) Shots of very young children praying? (12.48) ints meeting, Gamblers Anonymous c/u jacket pin "GA 2" (13.24) shots in canteen, pan to Daily worship (14.28)