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Title: FRIDAY NIGHT - WOMEN'S PRISON

Reference number: T0422

Date: 1972

Production company: Scottish Television

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 23.56 mins

Description: Report looking at the condition of old prison facilities in Gateside prison in Greenock and then a new prison buildings being built in Cornton Vale. Includes interviews with an inmate, prison planner and Lady Martha Bruce, who became moved from Gateside to become Cornton Vale's first governer.

Credits: rep. George Reid

Shotlist: No credits. Female warders look into cells to say goodnight, then lock them (0.17) girl sits on bed in cell, picks up guitar and begins to hum "Silent Night" to strummed chords; c/u chamber pot in corner of room, pan up to slot in door (0.47) warder walks along landing with dimmed lights [guitar still audible] (1.10)

exts. Gateside Prison (0.15) exts and ints. Cornton Vale Prison; view of Stirling castle from window; brief shot men digging outside building (0.54)

Elevated shots of Gateside prison (0.22) tracking shot of car approaching prison gates (0.39) George Reid speaks to camera inside gates as the prisoner is driven past (0.49) car arrives; female police officers escort woman inside low brick building (1.15) ints. woman's bag is emptied and her details taken; ls a large wooden door is closed and girl ushered into a cubicle where she is asked to undress and put on a dressing gown; c/u bottom of cubicle, shoes being removed (2.55) ls large ceramic bath filled with water, green at the bottom; inmate gets in to have a bath; c/u sign "Please clean bath after use" (3.17) iv Lady Martha Bruce, governor of Gateside prison, shots of framed keys on wall (5.12) woman is taken along landing and locked in a cell (5.28) ints Gateside cell (5.46) view towards Stirling castle; ms Reid speaks to camera, sitting on cell bed; pan over basic fittings of cell and door [all have been fitted by prisoners] (7.02) tracking shot between cell and toilet on landing (7.29) elevated shot over Cornton over nearby farm land (6.50) gvs prisoners [from Cornton Vale borstal and Polmont] plastering a wall (8.37) exts. builders working on roof (8.56) ls John Oliver controller of Planning and Coordination in the Scottish Prison Dept. walking across site (9.27) iv with John Oliver, seated at desk, he discusses the choice of site and complaints about the new prison (11.30) gvs women "slopping out"; washing their hands (12.15) pan over white landings of the main hall, Cornton Vale (12.29) warder steps into the Young Offender's section, shot of baby in pram by the door (12.48) GR walks through a mother and baby cell; c/u pamphlets and books for mothers; trolley stocked with condensed milk etc.; baby bath and cot (13.47) iv with Lady Bruce continues, she speaks about the training and qualifications women can at the jail (15.04) c/u cooking pots on gas stove; brief shots inmates eating (15.32) assessment meeting before release; Joan speaks about her time in the Young Offenders institution; deputy governer speaks about her progress and why she got into trouble (19.33) iv with Lady Bruce, who reads a letter received from a successful ex-inmate (20.48) brief shots of women in cells, reading, typing, playing guitar; warders check each cell and say goodnight before locking up (21.52)