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Title: WHITECRAIGS, ROUKEN GLEN, GLASGOW MEARNSKIRK, HEAVY SNOW

Reference number: 9916

Date: 1945c

Director: filmed by Averil and Willie Murdoch

Sound: silent

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 10.34 mins

Description: Amateur footage of the south side of Glasgow and the city centre during heavy snow.

Shotlist: Shots of the snowy landscape. Shots of snow covered houses and a little girl playing in the snow. Shots of the girl holding a panda toy. A woman is shown coming out of a house. More shots of snowy houses. Shots of children sledging down a snow covered hill. (Half Mile Run, Cathcart Castle Golf Course) Shots of people skating on the ice. (Rouken Glen Pond). More shots of sledging. Shots of a car and bus driving down the snow covered A77. Shots of a frozen stream and more snow covered landscape. Shots of a dog in the snow. Shots Glasgow city centre - people walking around on snow slush covered street. Shots of cars and buses driving through the slush covered roads. Shots of people in Royal Exchange Square in Glasgow. Shots of the statue of the Duke of Wellington covered in snow. Shots of a man trying to brush the snow out of the road as people on bicycles and driving cars pass. Shots of a horse and cart passing shops. Shots of a snow covered George Square. Shots of the bridges over the Clyde and the railway bridge. Shots of Mearns Old Kirk.