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Title: GLASGOW, ROTHESAY AND LARGS, to

Reference number: 5548

Date: 1935c

Production company: F.W. Tassell & Son, Carlisle

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 18.33 mins

Description: Overview of journey from Glasgow city centre to Rothesay and Largs on passenger steamer circa 1935.

Related donor correspondence suggests this 'seems to be an organised school trip complete with chartered train'.

Credits: A Cine Kodak Film by F.W. Tassell & Son, Carlisle

Shotlist: Title, steam train pulls into platform in Central Station in Glasgow (0.14) shot inside of passengers, some at formal set tables eating meals (0.42) brief shot two men in guard's carriage of train (0.49) view houses and tenements from train window (Fotheringay Road?) (1.10) backs of tenements, view of bridge and back into Central. C/u crowd of passengers disembarking from steam engine and filing past camera, man in foreground selling ice-cream (2.19) people crossing Hope Street, traffic held up by policeman, tram to Anniesland in background as is Newspaper House (2.39) ext Newspaper House, camera pans Daily Record, Sunday Mail & Evening News building (3.08) policeman directing public across George V bridge, rail bridge with adverts in b/ground - including CAPSTAN's, AITKEN's BEER, BERMALINE BREAD (3.33) George V steamer, camera pans across Clyde (3.58) brief shot rooftops, c/u mostly women and children in school uniform crossing George V bridge and looking at camera (4.37) people boarding steamer (4.45) people entering building , George V bridge in b/ground (4.59) Duchess of Hamilton steamer on quayside, view from quay of people boarding steamer (5.23) c/u piper and policeman (5.45) view from steamer of riverside, people waving. View of shipyards (6.10) men in white coats (kitchen staff?) on deck playing cards, schoolchildren eating. Brief shot of huge Clyde navigation and Meadowside Granary building (6.27) Gvs people on deck (7.05) passing Yarrow shipyards (7.51) passing Clyde Portland Cement Company Ltd (8.03) passing Brown and Company, Clydebank. Huge storage tanks on riverside, scenic b/ground. Views of people on board and other boats on river, including large warship being towed by two tugs (9.22) passing Gourock (9.55) yacht at sea towing rowing boat (10.19) view of passengers amassed on deck (10.46) man steering ship (11.25) passing paddle steamer and other rivercraft (11.30) approaching Rothesay (11.51) passengers disembark. Brief shot men with megaphones on board shouting instructions (12.42) harbour with Winter Gardens in b/ground (12.53) RS McColl shop beside Harbour bar (13.02) ruins beside Rothesay castle (13.35) crowds on pier, boy looking into film projection booth (13.49) paddle steamer Jeannie Deans? approaching harbour, man walking two cows along pier. Gvs people, passengers boarding steamer and being waved off from harbour (15.14) gvs passengers on board braving strong winds (15.51) approaching Largs, gvs people on promenade (16.44) British Linen Bank and street scene Largs (17.00) LMS station, interior station. Old chocolate machine to foreground. Passengers approaching train (17.50) men leaning out of train's doors in trilby's reading newspapers at station. View from platform as train departs (18.23) THE END (18.30) ecs (18.33)