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Title: KIRKINTILLOCH DISTRICT

Reference number: 9552

Date: 1957c / 1963c

Director: filmed by D.C. Kerr

Production company: Deeker Films

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 19.31 mins

Description: Amateur footage of the town of Kirkintilloch and district, including street scenes, surrounding countryside, a Remembrance Day parade, construction of new houses, football at Adamslie Park, an agricultural show and the Forth and Clyde canal.

For the other films in this collection see also refs. 9553 and 9554

Shotlist: [no title] - 'Burgh of Kirkintilloch' road sign on Glasgow Road - view along Cowgate, pan across Kirkintilloch Steeple - Peel Park entrance and war memorial, gvs - gvs along Cowgate, traffic and pedestrians, Fountain's drapery shop, canal bridge, St. Mary's Church (1.32) gvs Remembrance Day parade coming along Townhead, led by pipe band, soldiers, veterans, Boys' Brigade, Scouts, Cubs, Girl Guides, Girls Guildry (2.40) procession passes Provost and town officials - gvs gardens and town hall - c/u crest 'Ca' canny but ca' awa' - pan across canal to St. Mary's Church - panning shots along street - pan along Spider Bridge and view from bridge - gvs village of Waterside and footbridge over river - gvs St. Agatha's Primary School - pan across river to large farm and Campsie Hills - gvs canal and fields, bridge over canal, Crosshill Road junction, Wester Gadloch Farm and Gadloch in distance (6.36) gvs railway lines, signal box and marshalling yards - brief shots diesel train and steam locomotive passing through Lenzie station - gvs housing estate under construction, pan across to cottages across road - pan across Kirkintilloch skyline and Campsies from new houses - gvs wood-clad and brick houses under construction, some nearing completion (8.43) shots of men at work on brick building - c/u shots brick-laying - man at work in garden - shot of completed building - gvs dilapidated buildings on Townhead, gable end with 'Site of New Super Cinema' advertised - gvs new flats in Freeland Place - gvs dilapidated buildings with cinema poster in foreground (10.17) gvs agricultural show, Clydesdale horses being led past, pedigree cattle, young boy leading calf, pipe band, Highland dancers on stage, showjumping [some slow-motion sequences], marquee with judging table, Highland dancers, judges conferring, showjumping, presentation of showjumping prizes (13.16) l/s Woodilee Hospital - cars on country roads, roadworks in progress - gvs bowling green, games in progress - gvs street and detached houses - c/u shots of bowling matches (14.47) gvs Kirkintilloch Rob Roy football match at Adamslie Park - gvs tennis match (15.46) gvs procession along road, pipe band, Scouts and Cubs - l/shots Broomhill Hospital buildings - gvs new industrial units under construction - pan across rooftops to industrial units (17.19) gvs tractor and hay baler in field, bales loaded on to trailer (18.05) gvs pleasure boat Ashton, decorated with bunting, on Forth & Clyde canal about to start trip - passengers board and wave to others on bank - gvs Ashton sailing along canal - 'Burgh of Kirkintilloch' road sign (19.31)