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Location

Armagh City, Belfast Castle, Belfast docks, Caledon, Dunluce Castle, Giant's Causeway, Glens of Antrim, Lough Neagh, Lurgan, Portadown, Waringstown

Year

1954

Date

30/07/1954 (first transmission)

Length

26min 20sec

Audio

sound

Format

film

black and white

Source

BBC NI

Courtesy

BBC NI

Rights Holder

BBC NI

It is illegal to download, copy, print or otherwise utilise in any other form this material, without written consent from the copyright holder.

Description

British travelogue in which Richard Dimbleby takes a journey around Northern Ireland.

Shot List

01:20 Interview between Dimbleby and actor Joseph Tomelty in the grounds of Belfast Castle. 04:13 Dimbleby then drives along the Antrim Coast Road and the Glens of Antrim. The Northern Ireland Home Service is being played on the radio. Waterfall. 06:00 Cushendall. 07:40 He visits Red Bay and Glenarm, the Emerson farm in Glenarm where a storytelling session is under way (reconstructed in the studio). 11:17 The Giant's Causeway and Dunluce Castle are briefly shown. Finn McCool. Close up of wishing chair. 13:35 Electric trams at Bushmills, pig farming, and peat digging. 14:46 Lough Neagh. 15:05 Weaving at Waringstown, Co. Down. Hand loom weaving. 16:28 Lurgan Mayor's garden. 17:06 Interior weaving mill. 17:20 Man in bowler hat talking to camera about the changes in fortune of Lurgan and Portadown. 18:42 Portadown town centre. 18:50 Large country house and gardens with Peacocks. Cows, deer, horse sheds and other country houses. 19:55 Tynan Abbey, Armagh is then featured with Sir Norman Strong the speaker of the Northern Ireland parliament. 20:35 General views of the streets and twin cathedrals of Armagh City. 21:55 Presenter then moves on to Newry and canals, Warrenpoint on Carlingford Lough and the Silent Valley. View of Mournes. 22:27 Ardglass. General views of harbour and fishing boats. 22:40 Finally returns to Belfast where Belfast Harbour. Irish linen boxes being loaded onto boats. 23:09 General views of Harland and Wolff. Pan across dry docks. 23:28 View from above looking down on bough of ship under construction. 24:25 View going down open elevator. 24:35 Men working. 24:45 Belfast Castle and Jo Tomelty.

Credits

Director and Editor - John Rhodes; Producer - Stephen McCormack; Screenplay - Peter Hunt, Stephen Hearst; Studio Reconstruction - Richard R. Greenough

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