GLASGOW BY THE WAY: George Wyllie's Straw Locomotive
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Title: GLASGOW BY THE WAY: George Wyllie's Straw Locomotive
Reference number: 4860
Date: 1987 - 1988
Director: [d. Diane Tammes]
Sponsor: [ Channel 4]
Producer: [ Seona Robertson]
Production company: [ Reality Productions]
Sound: sound
Original format: 16mm
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 8.02 mins
Description:
George Wyllie, sculptor, and ex-North British Locomotive employee Willie Dewar take Mr Wyllie's life size straw locomotive as a starting point for discussion about locomotives and decline in industry in Glasgow.
See also refs. 4861, 6763, 6766 and 7559
For further information see also http://www.georgewyllie.com/ [last accessed 04/05/2020]
Credits: [p. Seona Robertson]
Shotlist: Talking heads George Wyllie and ex-North British Locomotive Company employee Willie Dewar. (0.41) They discuss design of the straw model locomotive; loading loco's at the Clyde; decline of heavy industry in Glasgow. Visible in the background the "straw locomotive" hangs from the Finnieston Crane (7.28) [blank, soundtrack continues] (8.02)