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Title: QUEEN MARY II SAILING DOWN CLYDE

Reference number: T1791

Date: 1967, September 19

Production company: STV

Sound: sound

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 4.15 mins

Description: Report from the newly named Clyde steamer Queen Mary II on the name change as she sails down the Clyde past her new namesake, the Cunard-owned liner Queen Mary. The steamer had previously been named the Queen Mary but Cunard had decided that they would like to name one of their liners just that so Williamson-Buchanan Ltd, the owners of the steamer, agreed to rename their ship, the Queen Mary II. Footage also contained of the new Queen Mary in the process of being built.

Shotlist: [trims - no title] gvs steamer Queen Mary II at Bridge Wharf, Glasgow, passengers boarding - portrait of Queen Mary on board, c/u shots Cunard - White Star plaque underneath: "Presented to T.S.S. Queen Mary II by Cunard White Star Ltd. extract from minute of Directors' meeting of Cunard White Star Ltd 2nd October 1934 'Resolved that the directors do hereby place on record their appreciation of the courtesy of Williamson-Buchanan Steamers Ltd in so readily agreeing to change the name of their steamer Queen Mary' " - c/u Queen Mary II builder's plate (1.17) reporter to camera on deck of Queen Mary II sailing down the Clyde, past Barclay Curle's Elderslie dockyard in Scotstoun, Yoker power station, discussing speculation about name of the new Cunard liner Q4, currently being built (1.54) gvs sailing past Q4 [soon to be named Queen Elizabeth 2] on slipway at John Brown's shipyard - passengers on board Queen Mary II taking photographs - brief shot passing Erskine - c/u original Williamson-Buchanan crested windows of Purser's office 'Queen Mary, Glasgow' (4.15)