REPORT ON NORTH AYRSHIRE TOWNS
The reporter highlights the economic problems facing North Ayrshire from a neglected post-war industrial estate in Kilwinning. (clip - full length available onsite)
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Title: REPORT ON NORTH AYRSHIRE TOWNS
Reference number: 2604
Date: 1962
Production company: Scottish Television
Sound: sound
Original format: 16mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 15.33 mins
Description: A programme made to highlight the level of unemployment in Ayrshire created by industrial recession. Ardrossan, Stevenston, Kilwinning and Saltcoats created by industrial recession and the high unemployment in the area.
Shotlist: (Title missing) Reporter to camera on problems facing North Ayrshire towns; shots of Ayrshire coastline, towards Arran. (1.15) Int. Provost Robert Lambie, who speaks about the local recession of ICI and shipyards because of jobs moving elsewhere. (3.44) Visuals of the area; the port of Ardrossan (4.45) Reporter outside Ardrossan Labour Exchange. (5.37) Vox pops unemployed men and one woman (7.55) Tracking shot Saltcoats street; v/o on the 4 towns' formation of the North Ayrshire Joint Committee for Industrial Development. (8.58) Int. William Hilton, committee member (11.03) gvs ICI plant in Ardeer; brief shot Hunterston nuclear power station site, under construction; Kilwinning Industrial Estate overgrown with grass, a solitary factory (12.20) Int. Alec Matthews Chairman of the North Ayrshire Development Committee (14.35) Reporter concludes his report, walking through knee high grass in Kilwinning Industrial Estate (15.04) visuals boat leaving port (15.35) (ecs missing)