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Title: EUCLID IN SCOTLAND

Reference number: 8850

Date: 1966*

Sponsor: General Motors (Scotland) Ltd.

Production company: Templar Film Studios

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 12.59 mins

Description: A promotional film by General Motors Scotland for their Euclid range of earth-moving machinery, built in their Scottish plant at Newhouse.

Shotlist: [BW] (0.00) blank (0.02) shot of Euclid dump truck driving slowly out of factory shed and above camera - shots of Euclid dump trucks in operation on open-cast site, being filled with rubble by excavator (1.12) [COL] shot of excavator lifting large boulders (1.29) [BW] shots of Euclid truck on site being filled with rubble (1.54) [COL] shot of R-45 dump truck reversing (2.09) [BW] shot of dump truck tipping rubble over bank - shots of front-loader and crawler tractors in operation on site - shots of crawler tractor shunting Euclid scraper - shots of TS-14 scrapers in operation (4.01) [COL] shots of bucket excavator and dump trucks in operation on site - shots of Euclid L-20 front loader in operation underground (5.00) [BW] c/u shot of rubble being tipped from dump truck (5.15) gvs of factory floor, fork-lift passing - shots of engineer working at 'Quality Control Station' - ext gv of Euclid (Great Britain) Limited factory at Newhouse - high tracking shot from crane of sheet metal - high int shot of factory - shots of sample link being tested - shots of sheet being cut by flame-cutter with multiple cutting heads - shots of worker winching parts in cage between tanks (7.41) shots of woman operating IBM computer system in office, loading spool and checking printer - c/u shot of Euclid invoice being printed - pan across computer terminals and spools - shot of parts crates being stencilled in factory and pulled away by truck - shots of trainees at lecture at Newhouse factory, instructor operating gear model (9.45) gvs of men at work on shop floor, heavy parts being moved by winch - shots of scraper being assembled, levers being tested on crawler tractor - shots of crawler tractor being tested on skid plates - shot of Euclid 82-30 in operation - shots of scrapers being assembled - shots of quality control engineers inspecting finished scrapers - shot of destination stencil being sprayed and quality control label attached - shot of 'C. Butt Ltd.' flatbed truck leaving Euclid factory with new front loader - shot of Euclid R-15 and more destination stencils for Yugoslavia and Spain on a new R-24 dump truck - shots of Euclid dump truck and front loader being winched on board cargo ship at docks (12.55) [blank] (12.59)