FALKIRK TOWN COUNCIL COLLECTION: Dollar Park, Cemetery and Coronation Celebrations
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Title: FALKIRK TOWN COUNCIL COLLECTION: Dollar Park, Cemetery and Coronation Celebrations
Reference number: 3339
Date: 1953 - 1967
Director: [filmed by unidentified employees of Falkirk Town Council]
Sound: silent
Original format: 16mm
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 24.55 mins
Description: Collection of film shot by unidentified employee of the workings of the Town Council's sanitary dept, with some sequences relating to urban redevelopment in the town. [see also refs 7010, 7011 and 7012].
Shotlist:
[Shotlisted with aid of donor's notes]
[Reel 1]
[1959] No title. Gv's Dollar Park floral clock (0.29) [blank] (0.40) [1950's] c/u cherry tree branches, exts building. Gv's flora in Dollar Park (3.20) women and man walk up to entrance of Windsor Home where they are met by nurse, man and nurse have their photograph taken on the front steps. (4.07) road resurfacing on main street (Kerse Lane?), view of special tarmac laying machinery (4.55) [blank] (4.56) Dollar Park open air theatre (?) with seats set up, construction work in progress, cement mixing (5.25) view of housing estate, houses empty (5.53) Dollar Park, open air seating (6.17) cemetery (sheet in front of camera suggests 'Camelon Cemetery? However Donor's notes would suggest Dorrator Cemetery) (7.53) [sheet in front of camera reads 'Pre-war Sections'] gvs cemetery, areas completely blank (9.39) Camelon floral display, man to camera, short view over cemetery (9.59) [blank] (10.03) [1967] gv's demolition and redevelopment at Main Street, Camelon and shots Redbrae Coup, refuse dump (13.54) [blank] (13.58) 1950's housing estate, council coup, rubber snow plough attachment being tested on dry streets - this is designed to clear rubbish off streets (18.11) 1960's crematorium - opening (?) gv's interior and exterior (21.55) [blank] (22.01) 1953* Coronation decorations on buildings and vehicles Newmarket Street, Falkirk, pan over groups of drivers (22.30) [blank] (22.40) Coronation decorations on buildings and vehicles Newmarket Street, Falkirk, showing the mottos of Falkirk "Touch Ane, Touch A'" "Better Meddle wi' the Diel than the Bairns o' Falkirk". Holding up the winner's trophy (24.55)
[see also refs 7010, 7011 and 7012]