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Title: BUILDING WORK - P.N. SHINNIE

Reference number: 3494

Date: 1961* / 1962*

Director: [filmed by John Campbell]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 18.56 mins

Description: Film of a building project from the very beginning to near completion. View of materials and equipment used.

Shotlist: [col] shots of ruined buildings and earth being loaded onto a lorry by a bull dozer in Aberdeen(2.18)c/u of foundations of building, shots of tools being used by workmen, shots of the crane used for drilling or excavation work(5.29)shots of men plastering a wall where a pipe used to be, shots of the crane being used to join two pipes together(6.15)ext shots of the foundations and joists erected(6.49)shot of the inside of an installed pipe and more shots of the equipment being used(7.09)shot of man welding and shots of men around the crane(7.30)shots of men moving engine of crane into place(8.34)shots of men filling cement mixer and detaching this to send it up the crane where the pipe is then filled in(9.04)shot of men manoeuvring water tank into the foundations of the building site with the aid of a crane(10.23)gv's of men working with scaffolding(10.49)shots of man walking up street with a Ross Crane van in the background(11.00)ext shots of building work and scaffolding(11.34)shots of cement being made and then being transported by wheelbarrow to the workmen(13.06)gv's of cement being delivered in a cement digger to the workmen who then distribute it(14.43)shots of men harnessing corrugated roofing for transportation to the roof(15.01)ext of the incomplete building(15.11)general shots of the women that work for Morris Services(16.00)gv's of crane and men off lifting materials from the back of a lorry, ext's of the partially completed building and the workmen involved(18.56)