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Title: GLENROTHES: The END OF THE BEGINNING

Reference number: 5961

Date: 1995

Sponsor: [ Glenrothes Development Corporation]

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 20.33 mins

Description: Glenrothes Development Corporation showcases its work creating and improving housing, open space, industrial development and infrastructure in the town, as it comes to the end of its existence in the late 1990s.

In July 1989 the Government issued a White Paper entitled 'The Way Ahead', signalling the start of the wind up of the New Town Development Corporations.

Credits: acknowledgements The Scottish Film Archive, The Glenrothes Gazette, Glenwood Library, G.D.C. Archive Library, Jim Flannigan (Fife Police), Steve Donnelly (F.I.P.R.E.)

Shotlist: (tape starts 00:00:00)
(00:00:18) gvs Glenrothes, title superimposed (00:00:49) brief c/u map of Glenrothes; i/v Professor Kit Blake about Glenrothes New Town (00:01:20) archive film showing planners at work, c/u map (00:01:32) gvs housing and roads in Glenrothes, archive film and photographic stills showing construction of town, shops, schools, leisure facilities, Rothes Colliery, Royal Visit in 1957, Queensway industrial estate, industries such as the Scottish Milk Marketing Board, electronics and papermaking businesses, shopping centres, housing (00:05:30) c/u map of Macedonia housing precinct, closure of Rothes Colliery, Viewfield industrial estate, airstrip, Cadco plans and crash (00:08:06) more stills, industry and life generally, community centres, football facilities, parks (00:09:17) Bobigen (?) Way, showing the Glenrothes-Hughes half marathon, swimming pool, all weather pitches, Fife regional council headquarters, housing, public transport, shopping centre, town centre bus station, open spaces and woodland (00:12:43) i/v Sir George Sharp about living conditions, gvs park where there is a golf course, hotel, caravan park, craft centre, flowers (00:13:49) Eastfield, Whitehill, Southfield and Bankhead industrial development, out of centre retail park (00:14:14) Balfarg, site of prehistoric ceremonial complex with henge site (00:14:47) gvs public town art, sculpture, (00:15:11) exts Fife regional council buildings (00:15:31) (00:15:51) Professor Kit Blake i/v the way forward with developmetn (00:16:21) East Fife Regional Road completed july 1990, gvs road development, River Leven bridge Kingdom Centre, Rothes Halls Library, Tourist Office, gvs Glenrothes (00:19:41) Sir George Sharp i/v how great Glenrothes is (00:20:00) ecs (00:20:33)