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Title: STILL GOING STRONG

Reference number: 3379

Date: 1959*

Director: d. B. Mocogni & A.R. Niven

Sponsor: Johnnie Walker & Sons

Production company: MacDonald Film Production, Kilmarnock

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 26.53 mins

Description: Documentary shot for Johnnie Walker & Sons showing the process and production of Johnnie Walker Whisky.

Credits: ph. B. Mocogni
ph. A.R. Niven
comm. C.V. Smith Production Director of Johnnie Walker & Sons Kilmarnock
m. accompaniment under the d. Mr. Andrew Fulton.

Shotlist: credits (1.06) Born 1826 (1.19) shot watercolour of old premises (1.30) shot of the exterior of Johnnie Walker warehouses in Strand Street; shots new distillery in Hill Street, Kilmarnock (2.47) gvs work in Johnnie Walker cooperage, hand making casks from old ones (3.50) man making a new cask using a machine (4.30) casks are finished with paint and loaded onto a freight wagon on a siding immediately outside the factory (5.34) exterior shots of the Glenkinchie distillery [East Lothian]; casks arrive by tractor in the yard (6.20) c/u hand pouring barley; pan over floor as the barley is turned with spades (6.53) pan over washback barrels; shot of interior, and worker washing interior (7.33) shot of pot still and worker monitoring it (8.00) c/u cabinet marked "Safe spirit, feint & low wines", c/u spirit pouring into funnel (8.20) exts. casks leaving the Highland distillery by tractor going back to Kilmarnock filled with malt whisky (9.00) wagons are pushed into siding by a diesel powered machine (9.40) casks are unloaded and rolled into the warehouse (10.12) ints. malt whisky is sampled from the cask for excise; c/u man using hydrometer in samples of whisky, pan over room, a bottled sample stands on each cask; man collects samples in a basket (11.32) gvs blender at work in sample room, examining scent and colour of samples (12.00) contents of casks are blended in vats (13.29) ms blend is stored in casks to mature; ms workers fill, seal and stencil number on casks; pan over stored casks (14.32) ints kitchen, woman using mechanised potato masher?; shots of the staff canteen (15.08) ints. first aid room; ms eye test, woman gets a plaster on a wounded foot (15.59) ints a powerful conveyer carries barrels up an incline (16.27) Excise check quantity and strength of production; whisky is poured into steel troughs which feed into glass-lined tanks; shots of whisky pipes (17.19) ms man operating control which moderates flow of water, adjusting the whisky to strengths required by different export markets (17.36) ints. fork lift truck lifting crates of bottles (18.30) the process of the sterilising of the bottles moving onto the bottles being filled, capped and labelled - most of this process is automated with part of the work done by hand, i.e. wrapping and boxing of the bottles [exclusively female workers] (21.53) shots of the whisky cases being machine made by men (23.32) cases are lined and divided with cardboard inserted by young men (24.15) cases are filled with bottles by female workers (24.26) cases are closed, weighed and loaded onto trolleys (25.23) men loading Johnnie Walker vans (26.04) exts. fleet of JW vans leave the distillery (26.40) ...Still Going Strong (26.53)