TENEMENT HOUSING IN ABERDEEN
A Doric poem - an Aberdeen woman’s reflections on the difference between life in the tenements and a modern semi-detached. (clip - full length available onsite)
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Title: TENEMENT HOUSING IN ABERDEEN
Reference number: N0096
Date: 1979
Production company: Grampian Television
Sound: sound
Original format: 16mm
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 3.17 mins
Description: News item regarding tenement housing, on the occasion of an exhibition celebrating this part of Aberdeen's heritage. Interview concerns the architectural value of tenements and their likely fate.
Shotlist: exts various tenement houses in Aberdeen (0.21) interview with man who discusses their architectural merits, continuing in v/o (0.30) c/u black and white photographs of tenement housing, intercut with exts various tenement houses in Aberdeen (1.28) continuation of interview, discussing possible 'romanticisation' of tenements and the likelihood of their survival (1.54) exts new modern bungalow housing; Doric tenement poem in v/o (2.02) tenements (2.59) exts new housing (3.17)