Another Sea (1987)
Another Sea (1987)
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- Release Date: 1st January 1987
- Asset ID: 802394
- Synopsis: A film examining the history of the ship construction industry and Britoil’s project to recover newly found oil in the North Sea, which was completed in 1987
- Shotlist: 00:03:02 BP Shield logo. Aerial North Sea, Day. Caption overlay 'ANOTHER SEA'. VO commences and talks about how unpredictable the North Sea can be. 00:03:19 LS 'CAM ZEBRA' Ship transporting staff to oil rig in heavy seas. XLS two North Sea Oil rigs including Brent oil field. 00:03:59 CU North Sea Overlay graphic detailing where Block 30 Sector b 17 is, which is 2 miles below the surface. Graph graphic off North Sea follows. 00:04:29 GVs Ext. Britoil HQ, River Clyde nr. Glasgow. 00:04:39 Still image off British National Oil Corp. 00:05:00 CU Man with walkey talkie on Moray Firth oil rig North of Aberdeen. LS of oil rigs on North Sea coast of Tyneside and Lowestoft. 00:05:30 Business meeting in Glasgow on Block 30 17 B. 00:06:10 GVs River near Block 30 17 B. 00:06:19 XLS Aerial of Lowther Hills. Cut to GVs River Clyde, Clyde Grains Hills. 00:07:13 GVs man on Clyde river bank side sifting for gold. 00:07:22 XLS Aerial fields of Lanarkshire. Cut to CU field to LS of Pinkston Power Station. 00:07:48 GVs 'Jamaica planter', 'Lincoln London' ships setting sail. 00:08:55 GVs Clyde Shipping yard and SECC and Clyde Auditorium Exhibition Centre. 00:09:17 GVs Venison Crane. Cut back to business meeting on Block 30 17 B. 00:10:27 GVs Int. office space designing oil rig (Block 30 17B). 00:11:30 GVs of graphical and model representations of oil rig. 00:12:08 GVs Motherwell Shipyard followed by molten metal being formed and scientists looking at samples of steel metal plates that will become the chosen metal for the oil rig. 00:13:57 July, 1985 GVs The Clyde Production Platform known as The Jacket, towed to Moray Firth by tug boat (named 'Herkules'). 00:15:34 GVs model off 'The Jacket' being tested to withstand wave currents. 00:15:46 GVs Clyde Field on the day The Jacket was launched. 00:18:15 GVs Molesend on Tyne (sp?) top side modules being manufactured. 00:19:32 GVs Lowestoft support accommodation module being manufactured. 00:19:51 GVs Int. and Ext. oil production platform, Lowestoft. 00:20:48 GVs Tyneside dusk, support module travelling down river. 00:21:00 GVs Lowestoft and power generator module travelling along river. 00:21:22 GVs Crane Barge lift in action and then modules fitted together. 00:22:39 Diagram representation of the modules added together process. 00:23:17 LS Kelvingrove Park in centre of Glasgow with the image of the oil rig superimposed over it. 00:23:35 GVs Int. and Ext Rig in action. 00:24:45 Man on phone radios in 'Gas to flair'. 00:25:21 Diagram showing the oil reservoir and how far the rigs tentacles will reach. 00:25:32 GVs Int. men working and using their accommodation quarters on and within the rig. 00:27:55 Ext. Aerial of Clyde rig. Flair alight. 00:28:59 CU water, end credits commence. Written and directed by Laurence Henson, edited by John Daniels, music composed by Simon Park, commentary spoken by Alec Heggie, photographed by Mike Herd, Mark Littlewood, Jan Pester, Martin Singleton, and Brian Cairney, Neil Culley, Norrie Halley, Ian Macdonald, rostrum by Ted Gerald, sound recorded by Phil Croal Louis Kramer, Ian Leslie, unit managers, Paul de Salles Perry Miller, Barry Read, special effects by Westbury Design & Optical, library material Scottish Film Archive, production Ron Appleton, made by WADLOW GROSVENOR INTERNATIONAL executive producer Jean Wadlow, in association with BRITOIL EXTERNAL AFFAIRS' ENDS.
- Production Company: Wadlow Grosvenor International
- Licensing Restrictions: None
- Viewing Restrictions: Public
- Format: BetaSP_Small
- Alternative Language Notes: None