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Frank Mears was appointed planning consultant to the Corporation of Greenock in 1940. It was the only consultancy in which he directly confronted the problems of the industrial West of Scotland which for him represented a society and culture in decay and disarray. His plan for the redevelopment of the Greenock area was completed in 1947 and published early in the following year with considerable attendant publicity. The work of men like the pioneering documentary film-maker, John Grierson, had done much to stimulate interest in film-making in Scotland, and Mears himself was fascinated by thepower of the cinema. During the War, the Scottish Office had been quick to appreciate the usefulness of film as a means of informing and influencing the population and had sponsored a number of dramatised documentaries dealing with various aspects of social and economic reconstruction. Greenock Corporation commissioned Hamilton Tait Ltd. to produce a special promotional film entitled Greenock Plans Ahead to complement the exhibition of Mears' proposals in the Town Hall.
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