Other titles:ULSTER DOCUMENTARY (working title) [Alternative Title]
Summary: Publicity film encouraging investment in Northern Ireland.
Description: Ostensibly, the narrator is an official of the Northern Irish government seen escorting two Dutch businessmen interested in setting up an electronics plant in the province. After a scenic opening - Slieve Bingian, Co. Down, and Lough Neagh - the businessmen's visit properly begins in Belfast, "a friendly place": band of Queen's Bays; Stormont, centre of a government with unique and decisive powers in domestic affairs; Dutch-owned textile factory built with "grants, concessions and financial assistance" from government. Travelogue continues with fishing on the River Bann, dairy farming in Co. Tyrone, linen industry and production of hand-painted damask linen, golfing, and a visit to an electronics factory. "Local labour is plentiful and adaptable", and government will specially train men for work in new industries. Craigavon industrial estate. Portadown rose nursery. Fermanagh pottery. Londonderry and synthetic rubber and oil plants. Dutch businessman asks where an expanding work force would be housed. "Government thought of that one twenty years ago", forming a housing trust to build (tower blocks) specifically for workers. Cut to cottage of James Wilson (father of Woodrow) in Co. Tyrone - preserved by the National Trust, it symbolises Ulster's many links with the US. End scenes show forest in Co. Down and Giant's Causeway on Antrim coast. The Dutch return home convinced of Ulster's potential, "striding forward on giant legs to make its own special and very real contribution to our modern world".
Alternative Title:ULSTER DOCUMENTARY (working title) [Alternative Title]
