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Title: FIRE AT COATBRIDGE TOWN HALL

Reference number: 7814

Date: 1967

Director: filmed by H.G.F. Rankin

Sound: silent

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: Non-Fiction

Running time: 4.05 mins

Description: Short sequence of amateur footage of Coatbridge Town Hall being destroyed by fire.

Please note there is leader and blank spaces in this film.

Notes from accompanying letter from Tom Clarke MP, 7 August 2008 - fire took place following a Senior Citizens' Christmas lunch; destroyed one of the finest organs in Europe; took place a few days after a Saturday Night Palais concert by the Bee Gees, who were number one in the UK charts at the time with 'Massachusetts'.

Film-maker HGF Rankin was a well-known dentist and amateur cinematographer.

Shotlist: [shot-listed from mini DV - manual control track]

[no title] - tracking shots from front of car travelling along roads in West Highlands - past 'Strathcanaird' road-sign - travelling downhill towards Ullapool (0.24) dark night-time shots of fire coming from tower of Coatbridge Town Hall - shots of whole building ablaze, fire in every window, flames coming from roof and timbers collapsing within - shot of lights on Christmas tree outside (1.26) sequence of under-exposed shots of snow in garden and street, children playing (2.32) shots of woman, children and dog in woodland - shot of boy using cine camera - gvs of river through woodland, family relaxing and playing beside it, climbing on rocks (4.05)