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Title: FOUNTAIN, the

Reference number: 8123

Date: 1996

Director: d. Liz Ingram

Sponsor: [ SBFT - Scottish Broadcast and Film Training]

Producer: [ Sara Barr]

Sound: sound

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 10.30 mins

Description: This video focuses on the story behind the Stewart Memorial Fountain in Glasgow's Kelvingrove Park, and the memories, thoughts and opinions of those who know it.

Changing Places was launched in September 1995.

"Changing Places is an innovative career development scheme for women working as freelancers in the Scottish Broadcast Film and Video industries. The scheme is designed to provide training and support for women who wish to move into directing or perhaps wish to gain further experience and skills as a director or in other grades where women are under-represented. The scheme will support 12 - 16 women for varying durations of time until September 1996, all of which will benefit from short courses, placements, workshops and master classes. By taking a flexible approach to each particular specific training need and circumstances, SB&FT will work in partnership with the women on the scheme to maximise their potential. All participants will receive a weekly training allowance, travel and subsistence costs and a contribution to child-care. The scheme is funded by the Skillset Freelance Training Fund and the European Social Fund co-ordinated through Skillset." [from press release in paper archives]

Credits: Featuring Dave the Parkie, Jim Brady - Hunter Clerk, Harry Dunlop - St. Mungo's Museum
Photographs courtesy of Douglas Annan - T.R. Annan and Sons

ph. Peter Anderson
sd. Simon Chirgwin
ed. James Hamilton

Thanks to Sara Barr, SB&FT Changing Places [Scottish Film and Broadcast Training]
© MCMXCVI

Shotlist: The Stewart Memorial Fountain, erected in 1872, commemorates Lord Provost Stewart who was instrumental in the delivery of Glasgow’s water supply system from Loch Katrine - inaugurated in 1859. This video focuses on the story behind the it and the memories, thoughts and opinions of those who know it. Includes comments by park-keeper, charged with cleaning the fountain, a visiting English family, local people who remember paddling in the water, a stone mason who made repairs to vandalised fountain in late 1980s, a historian - Harry Dunlop from St. Mungo's Museum - who explains the symbolism and history of the architecture. Sadness is expressed at the state of disrepair the fountain is in (10.30)