KISHORN COMMANDOS, the
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Title: KISHORN COMMANDOS, the
Reference number: 2690
Date: 1976
Sponsor: Howard Doris Ltd.
Production company: Ogam Films
Sound: sound
Original format: 16mm
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 10.02 mins
Description:
Construction of the Ninian Central Platform by Howard Doris Ltd. Visit of Prince of Wales to construction site.
Shotlist copied verbatim from written shotlist in can. See also ref. 5973. Explained in film that 'Kishorn Commandos' is the self-styled moniker of the workmen responsible for most of the heavy concrete laying undertaken during construction.
Shotlist: credits (0.08) diagram showing Ninian Central Platform built by Howard Doris Ltd (0.23) Gvs construction of plant and platform (4.15) Gvs visit of Prince of Wales to the site and him operating mechanism to allow seawater to flow into the dock for the first time (4.37) Gvs dredging of dock and dock gates being put in place. Tugs (7.43) credits (7.50) spacer (7.56) trim material from this film and also Ninian Central Platform showing aerial shots, early construction on site of Loch Kishorn (10.02)