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Title: FIRE AT DUNGAVEL TRAINING CENTRE

Reference number: 2608

Date: 1964

Production company: Scottish Television and BBC

Sound: mute

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 3.12 mins

Description: Two different newsreels of the fire at the NCB's Dungavel Training Centre for young miners on 12th. November, 1964. [See also refs. 2606-2607].

Shotlist: No credits. [STV newsreel] ext. of Dungavel Training Centre on fire with shots of firemen on ladders and on the roof hosing the flames. Shots of fire engines and of people standing by looking on (1.55) [blank insert] (2.20) [BBC newsreel] shots of firemen hosing burning roof, on top of ladders etc. shots of the charred roof and brief shot of boys looking on and pointing up to the weather vane on the roof as it topples (3.12)