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Title: 5HCV: LAUNCH OF GIANT KETTLE - RAW FOOTAGE

Reference number: 9245

Date: 1988, Match 3

Sponsor: [ Inverclyde District Council, Department of Recreational Services]

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 01:59:30

Description: Raw footage of the launch of Inverclyde's exhibit for the Garden Festival, the Inverclyde Steam Kettle from Adam's yard in Gourock. Visuals of the kettle being moved along the Clyde by The Second Snark, then slowly through Glasgow to its place in the Festival site.

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.

Shotlist: [black] (.05) l/s traditional jazz band playing outside ship repair yard James Adam and Sons in Gourock; 5HCV crew set up shot (2.23) Willie Stewart gives an introduction, jazz band in b/ground (4.06) c/u sign "James Adam & Sons", jazz band (5.17) l/s waiting crowd, slipway and crane (6.45) l/s steam emerging from door (7.15) l/s door opens to show giant kettle; two dray horses are led out to ramshackle fanfare (7.58) l/s unid. man introduces Provost Sir Simpson Stevenson [Provost oov, sound of speech is faint] (10.54) visuals ribboned heavy horses wait as kettle is slowly moved through doorway on a palette, photographers at work before horses are led out of shot (15.02) kettle moves down slipway (16.28) l/s Provost's wife christens the kettle; m/s Provost, Cllr Cathie Allan and unid. man pose for photographers (17.40) m/s launch party pose for more photographs (18.41) l/s Adam yard workers gather for photograph, disperse (19.09) visuals kettle and Provost pouring champagne for Cllr Allan in front of cameras (20.43) visuals crane being secured to kettle at four points; c/u base of kettle lifting from palette; kettle is guided by ropes onto a float [mute until 29.51] (31.23) l/s kettle on float flying house flag of Govan shipbuilders (31.46) visuals tug boat "The Second Snark" and kettle on barge (32.48) visuals approaching tug; float carrying kettle is slipped onto water, men catch rope from boat before being tugged away; close shots crew and cameramen on tug (39.18) l/s Second Snark pushing kettle up Clyde, pulling out to show river and oil rig (40.32) l/s tug and kettle, oil rig in b/ground (42.31) l/s kettle and tug pass, passengers wave (42.59) pan over Gourock (?) harbour (43.35) l/s kettle being moved along river (44.43) l/s kettle, visible through gap in Greenock harbour's fence (45.45) visuals Greenock showing Municipal building, kettle arriving in harbour (52.52) [black] (52.54) l/s tug and kettle [intermittent frame jumps until 1.33.40] (55.30) tracking shot kettle (55.41) l/s Clyde (56.02) visuals Dumbarton Rock and kettle travelling past (59.53) l/s kettle travelling past, road sign for West Ferry in f/ground (1.00.18) pan over Erskine bridge, pylon in f/ground (1.01.20) l/s kettle travelling under Erskine bridge and up the Clyde (1.03.56) l/s kettle passing sludge ship Dalmarnock (?) (1.06.22) l/s Renfrew Ferry, Renfrew Rose crossing river; pan over river to waiting spectators, back as kettle passes (1.11.33) l/s ferry swinging across river (1.12.13) l/s kettle nearing Finnieston and pausing (1.17.28) l/s ferry turns on river and approaches quay (1.22.33) visuals kettle and crane on quay (1.23.52) pan from Daily Record and Sunday Mail building to Kingston bridge (1.24.41) visuals kettle is guided onto lorry using crane (1.32.29) pan from kettle loaded on lorry over unfinished site to M8 Greenock sign (1.33.40) l/s rides; nearby housing (1.35.05) l/s man using camera and tripod; crane (1.35.39) lorry loaded with kettle, moves slowly along road with police escort, traffic queuing behind [lorry now bears banners for LEP International] (1.43.47) visuals kettle on lorry, camera crew and policeman redirecting traffic (1.44.52) l/s man standing by camera [oof]; shots of kettle (1.46.10) visuals kettle and crane (1.49.40) l/s crane moving kettle into place beside Clyde Navigation Trust building (1.59.30)