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Title: MOVING THE UNICORN

Reference number: 2850

Date: 1962

Director: [filmed by Alan D. McLagan]

Sound: silent

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 8.10 mins

Description: Moving the training ship 'Unicorn' to enable preparation work for the building of the Tay Road Bridge landfall area, Dundee, which involved demolition of old Dundee baths and the Royal Arch.

Unicorn moved to present site (in 1993) on 17 Sept. 1963.

Shotlist: ls crowds standing on dockside (0.25) ls [oof] line of men pulling on a rope; (0.28) c/u Unicorn, moving slowly (1.59) elevated shot docks, Unicorn lying cross the mouth, c/u sign "Tay Division RNR" on ship (2.19) ls small boat in dock; ls crowds standing nearby (2.33) shots of ship and helicopter; ls ship (4.01) [oof ] ls ship in dock; crowd; ls ship leaving with tug (5.01) ls ship with two tugs on the river; (5.32) [misty weather] ls ship further out on river (6.06) high shots of dock area, Royal Arch etc; crowds dispersing (6.35) pan over ship and tugs, crowds in f/ground; [oof] c/u men standing on "Unicorn" platform (7.22) ls sailors in small motor boat, all raise their white hats; ms boat passing (7.35) shots of Unicorn in dock (8.10)