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)