FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN YEAR IN HAMILTON
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Title: FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN YEAR IN HAMILTON
Reference number: 5592
Date: 1951
Director: [filmed by William Stewart]
Production company: Hamilton Town Council
Sound: silent
Original format: 16mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 15.23 mins
Description:
Overview of Festival of Britain year in Hamilton. Various exhibitions and displays.
16mm films from the collection of the late William Stewart, Burgh Librarian.
Credits: ph. & ed. Wm. Stewart, A.L.A., F.R.S.A.
Shotlist: Credits, FESTIVAL EXHIBITIONS IN HAMILTON, THE CIVIC EXHIBITION (0.51) Lanarkshire Fire Brigade recruitment display, including model of nuclear explosion, Police and road safety crossing display, Civil Defence Corps (2.43) Displays - Weights and Measures, Library, Public Cleaning, Sewage Works, Childrens Dept (4.17) models of housing, Public Health, Welfare Dept. Public Baths, Gas Board, Parks Dept (6.50) Provost Kerr presents the prizes to the winners of the Baking Competition. The Competition was sponsored by the Scottish Gas Board winners receiving prizes (7.46) THE INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION - ext Town Hall, Festival of Britain Industrial Exhibition sign. Views int. of textilecraft, Scottish Knitters Ltd., Scotex Knitwear, weaving, Hamilton Weaving Co. Ltd., tartans, clothes (9.54) H.C.B.S. stall - doughnuts being made, cake display. Fullwood Foundry stall, Scottish Gas Board, Walker & Wilson, Magnetic & Electrical Alloys Ltd. Tearoom, Electricity Board, Philips radios and television, Maclean & Co., Hamilton Carpets, Gown by Violet, furniture, 'Festival Rug' - THE END (15.23)