Floodtide
Date: 1949
Director: Frederick Wilson
Production Company: Aquila Film
Stars: Gordon Jackson. Rona Anderson, John Laurie, Jack Lambert, Jimmy Logan, Janet Brown, Elizabeth Sellars
Location(s): Dunbartonshire, Lanarkshire
Region(s): Scotland
Storyline:
A man aspires to become a ship designer instead of following the family tradition of farming.
Additional Information:
Screen captures by Phil Wilkinson
The was one of four of David Rawnsley’s films that used his “independent frame” technique, a form of back projection.
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"The Clyde – Cradle of shipbuilding." Looking down on the Harland and Wolff Diesel Engine Works in Scotstoun in Glasgow W4, Lanarkshire with South Street to the bottom right and Blythswood Ship Building yard to the top right.
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"This film is dedicated to all the skilled and devoted men in whose hands the proud tradition of the Clyde is in safe keeping." The River at Yoker, opposite Renfrew, with Yoker power station and Rothesay Dock to the top right.
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Joe Drummond and David Shields arrive at the farm owned and run by John Shields.
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Climbing down from the trap, David and his nephew enter the farmhouse on land worked by the family since the days of Bonny Prince Charlie.
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Inside the house, Joe questions John's insistence that David should follow in the family tradition rather than follow his ambition to design ships.
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Joe takes his nephew David to Glasgow after John allows him to leave the farm. One of four “Finnieston” Cranes that once stood beside the Clyde.
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David starts work in the rivet shop under the supervision on Charlie Campbell. The shipyard scenes are credited to John Brown & Co. Ltd. Clydebank.
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The whistle sounds to signal the end of David's first day at work. Many of the shipyard sequences seen in this production were reused in 'Jacqueline' made seven years later.
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To find lodgings, Tim Brogan takes David to see his landlady Mrs. McTavish. Possibly McLellan Street, maybe McAslin Street, in Glasgow.
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A game of football is played during a break in which David takes the opportunity to admire a yacht under construction in one of the sheds.
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Unhappy in the rivet shop and prompted by his Uncle, David begins to study ship design. The Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum on Argyle Street, Glasgow C3.
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At the home of the Yard Director, Mr. Anstruther, his daughter Mary mentions David's interest in the yacht she had designed. Woodside on Rosneath Road, Cove in Dunbartonshire, discovered by Steve Randall.
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Another day's work begins before Mr. Anstruther comes across one of David's designs whilst touring the yard.
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After Mr. Anstruther recognises David's talent and places him in the drawing office, Tim accompanies his pal to his new accommodation. Argyle Street in Glasgow, Lanarkshire looking towards the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. The building also features in 'The Gorbals Story'.
Kelvingrove on a bonny summer's evening captured by Neil Webster.
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The two friends alight from the tram and cross the road to Mrs. McCrae's house.
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David attends courses as his study continues. George Street in Glasgow C1 with the corner of John Street to the centre and St. George's-Tron church in the left distance located by the Scotland branch of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation and confirmed by Geoff Dodd.
Taking this shot, Neil Webster found that a hotel now occupies the far corner of John Street.
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The camera pans with the red Central Scottish Motor Traction bus. Facing the Royal Technical College, since 1964 the Royal College Building of the University of Strathclyde, at 204 George Street in Glasgow identified by Geoff Dodd and confirmed by the Scotland branch of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation.
Neil Webster explains that the University of Strathclyde's history dates back to the Andersonian Institute of 1796.
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On a Saturday soon after passing his term exams, David is driven from the shipyard at the end of the working day.
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Mr. Anstruther and David arrive at the Director's home. Steve Randall explains that the view is across the garden of Woodside on Rosneath Road at Cove, Dunbartonshire with Cove Bay and Loch Long to the right.
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The shot pans with the car as it approaches the house. The driveway of Woodside on Rosneath Road, Cove.
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After greeting Mary inside the house, she and David go sailing on the loch. The Category B Listed Woodside on Rosneath Road in Cove, Dunbartonshire, identified by Steve Randall.
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Following a disagreement with Mary, his former girlfriend Judy takes David to her lodgings after she turns up uninvited at Tim and Rosie's engagement party.
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When high winds threaten the following day's launch of the ship designed by David, Mary Anstruther arrives at Rosie's house looking for him.
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The end of the story has David and Mary walking into a bright future together after she agrees to marry him.