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Title: 5HCV: TX 73

Reference number: 9204

Date: 1985c

Sponsor: Jean Cameron, Mary Clark [and Inverclyde District Council, Department of Recreational Services]

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 03:05:36

Description: Compilation of 5HCV transmissions including Gourock Highland Games, Church chat with Bob Montgomery, Chaplain at Quarriers. John Douglas introduces the first 'Insurance - Who Needs It?'. 'Video Preview' trials videos available to rent in Greenock and in 'Learn on 5' with Willie Stewart, 5HCV shows educational programmes made by Channel 4 in association with Gill Learning.

5HCV was a projected funded by Manpower in the 1980’s. 5 HCV was a local community video service for the Hospitalised, Housebound, Handicapped, and Hard of Hearing. An off-shoot from hospital radio, 5HCV was a voluntary organisation who, in conjunction with the Recreational Service’s Video Production Unit (RSVP), made a weekly video tape featuring local people and local events and information. These tapes were distributed around local hospitals, community centres, and to the housebound.

See National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive Paper Archive series 3/13 for accompanying programme booklets.

Credits: camera Sean McKernan
lighting Bill Renton
sd. Donald Jacobs
p. ass. Carole Gordon
direction Graham Barbour
VT editor Tom Robinson
production Robert Murray
graphics John McCallum, Gordon Cowan
key grip Brian Denesse

Shotlist: [colour bars; grey] (0.33) [ident] (0.35) montage of 5HCV footage (2.13) m/s Willie Stewart explaining 5HCV and Recreational Services Video Project, introduces the next section (3.38) m/s WS introduction (4.56) i/v man selling rubber ducks for a race down the Clyde, in support of Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain; l/s tent (6.57) i/v woman helping out at RNLI Royal National Lifeboat Institution tent; she speaks about merchandise and local groups (10.28) l/s pipe band (10.47) gv's tug of war (13.44) l/s Captain Darroch opens the games (14.40) gvs footraces and shot put (16.29) l/s three girls display Highland dancing (18.34) m/s WS intro (18.46) Church chat (18.48) ints. and exts. churches (19.06) m/s Rev. Bob Montgomery speaks about the life of William Quarrier and his experience of working in Quarriers village and Epilepsy Centre (29.44) m/s WS (30.02) l/s start of 40 mile road race (33.13) gv's wrestling match (34.03) gvs weight over the bar event (35.12) gvs final lap of road race (36.59) gvs caber toss event (38.09) pipe bands salute Games chieftain (40.18) l/s as Captain Darroch closes the games; gvs as [unid.] dignitary presents prizes for piping; Linda Hamilton (?) for junior drum major, followed by Earl Dean (?) and Yvonne Dempsey (41.26) gvs pipe bands filing out, including group for Rothesay and District, including Ardniel pipe band (42.50) m/s WS introduces "Insurance: Who needs It?" (43.49) m/s John Douglas; i/v Bert Rennie of West of Scotland Insurance Brokers talking about home insurance (52.47) [ident ](52.50) m/s WS (53.07) Video 5 (53.36) m/s Frank Taylor reviewing 'A Passage to India', 'The Killing Fields', 'Bodyrock', 'Dune' and 'Pandemonium' intercut with trailers for each film (1.05.55) m/s WS (1.06.29) [black] (01.06.38) gvs 5HCV footage [using "posterize" effect] (01.08.30) ecs (1.09.08) m/s WS introduces "Learn on 5"; 5HCV shows educational programmes made by Channel 4 in association with Gill Learning (01.09.42) Design Matters: Telling Togs?; episode discussing purpose and effect of dress (01.35.40) m/s WS (1.35.52) 'Years Ahead with Robert Dougall' (02.15.47) gvs journey to Rothesay on PS Waverley including ints. engine room [some shots have magenta cast] (02.25.30) 5HCV This channel is available 24 hours each and every day. The programming will commence at three hourly intervals (02.25.45) [ident] (2.25.52) gvs Kip Marina (2.31.43) [ident] (2.31.54) elevated shots of townscape (2.32.35) gvs Kilmacolm street scenes (02.36.28) Programming will commence in 30 mins. 5HCV puting (sic) Inverclyde in the picture (02.36.39) elevated shots of townscape (02.37.38) tracking shots of Greenock docks from boat (03.03.23) 5HCV This channel is available 24 hours each and every day. The programming will commence at three hourly intervals (3.03.40) tracking shot Greenock docks (03.04.09) gvs Gourock Highland games [interference recorded on some shots] (03.05.36)