Ep 080 Lorcan Film Unit Remastered

This is the eightyth instalment of the remastered Lorcan Film Unit Videos. There is a total of 10 hours worth of film that we hope to publish over time. Unfortunately Leslie Crowe who was the Director and creator of much of this content is no longer with us. So we are hoping to get your help to figure out the places and the names of the people he captured.

If you turn on the Closed Captions "CC" on the video to see what we know about the footage so far.

00:25 - 00:39 Wide of roof - man walking up with timber of scaffolding
00:40 - 00:53 Platform secured by timbers on outside of wall which enables the work on the roof to proceed
00:54 - 01:01 Man moving timbers on roof
01:02 - 01:03 Man climbing across roof
01:04 - 01:17 Workers working on roof
01:18 - 01:26 Workers working on roof - Sean Dowling.
01:27 - 01:39 Boys and men burning timber in yard. “All old worm eaten and dry rotten timber”
01:40 - 01:51 Men moving ladder, several shots. Administration building being tackled
01:52 - 02:06 Men going up ladder
02:06 - 02:08 Man moving steal pipe up on scaffolding
02:09 - 02:20 John Thompson puttying up window several shots
02:21 - 02:30 John Thompson moving glass into place.
02:31 - 02:52 Shots of glass roof complete. “The glass Acre”
02:53 - 02:58 Shot of roof still under construction
02:59 - 03:04 Men painting guttering “curved end work more difficult
03:05 - 03:11 Men puttying up glass on roof
03:12 - 03:14 Man hammering
03:15 - 03:20 worker adjusting scaffolding

[thomasburke]

Amazing to see timber scaffolding still in use in the 1960s.