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The Bowler And The Bunnet
''The Bowler and the Bunnet'' was a Scottish television documentary programme on STV (TV channel), STV, directed and presented by Sean Connery. It is the only film ever directed by Connery. The documentary, filmed in black and white, was a critical examination of the Fairfield Experiment, whereby the industrialist Sir Iain Maxwell Stewart and the trades union introduced new working practices at the shipyard of Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Glasgow. It was released onto DVD by the British Film Institute as part of their ''Tales from the Shipyard'' boxed-set in February 2011. The title comes from the tradition where bowler hats were worn by managers within the shipyards while bonnets (cloth caps) were worn by the workers. References External links * Tales from the Shipyard at the Digital Fix 1967 television films 1967 films 1967 in Scotland Films shot in Glasgow History of Glasgow Television shows produced by Scottish Television Documentary films about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clifford Hanley
Clifford Leonard Clark "Cliff" Hanley (28 October 1922 – 9 August 1999) was a journalist, novelist, playwright and Television presenter, broadcaster from Glasgow in Scotland. Originally from Shettleston in the city's East End, he was educated at Eastbank Academy. During the late 1930s, he was active in the Independent Labour Party. During the Second World War he was a conscientious objector. He also wrote a number of books, including ''Dancing in the Streets'', an account of his early life in Glasgow (in its contemporaneous serialisation in The Evening Times, retitled ''My Gay Glasgow''), ''The Taste of Too Much'', a bildungsroman, coming-of-age novel about a secondary schoolboy, and ''The Scots''. During the 1960s and 1970s, he published thrillers under the pen-name Henry Calvin. They were more successful in the US and Canada than in the UK. A collection of his humorous verse in Scots, using the pseudonym 'Ebenezer McIlwham', was published by Gordon Wright Publishing o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |