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Title: PETTIGREWS FIRE

Reference number: 5619

Date: 1961c

Production company: [ Templar Film Studio]

Sound: mute

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 3.34 min

Description: Fire at Pettigrews Shop in Glasgow City Centre.

Shotlist: Fire at Pettigrews & Stephens Shop in Glasgow city centre. Firemen working to extinguish the fire. Fireman up a ladder holding a hose, firemen carrying a stretcher, an unconscious woman being lowered down from the building on a crane (0.42); woman placed on a stretcher (0.45); fireman breaking a window with his axe (0.53); gvs of the fire and firemen, fire engines (1.31) Police control crowd gathered to watch; c/u faces in crowd, intercut with firefighting (2.14); the aftermath of the fire, elevated view of the ruined roof, rubble being removed from the building to a lorry, people passing and looking in the windows of the shop (3.34)