SHIELDHALL
Full length video
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Title: SHIELDHALL
Reference number: 4512
Date: 1972*
Director: filmed by Mr Tom Urie
Sound: sound
Original format: std. 8mm
Colour: bwcol
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 6 mins
Description:
Pleasure trip on the 'sludge boat', the vessel built to dump Glasgow's sewage sludge in the deep water off Garroch Head on the Clyde estuary.
The 'sludge boat' took passengers for pleasure cruises down the Clyde estuary.
Shotlist: Sludge boat 'Shieldhall' sailing down the river. Gv of a dredger deepening the channel. Gv around the deck of the sludge boat : lifeboat, passengers playing deck games. [B/W] Gv of the engine room [two vertical reciprocating steam engines (?)], c/u of the ship's telegraph. [Col] view a large cog [steam driven steering gear(?)]. View of another, more modern sludge ship, sailing by. Men turning wheels on deck to release the sludge into the water. C/u of the water surrounding the ship changing colour. Fresh water running onboard the deck. C/u of the Torch lighthouse ship servicing buoy lights. Gv of the sludge boat docking at harbour. The End. Picture of a Kodak box TU D8L. (6mins)