A promotional film produced for Glaxo Operations Barnard Castle by Turners Visual Communications that showcases the company's high standards in its production of various types of medicines. The film also shows the company’s commitment to high work standards and the importance of good community engagement. Title: Quality Medicines – For the World. Glaxo A montage of images showing various medical ampoules, vials, tablets, and ointments produced by Glaxo Operations followed by an image...

A promotional film produced for Glaxo Operations Barnard Castle by Turners Visual Communications that showcases the company's high standards in its production of various types of medicines. The film also shows the company’s commitment to high work standards and the importance of good community engagement. Title: Quality Medicines – For the World. Glaxo A montage of images showing various medical ampoules, vials, tablets, and ointments produced by Glaxo Operations followed by an image of the globe and a map showing the North-East of England. The site of Glaxo at Barnard Castle is highlighted. Aerial of the River Tees passing over Barnard Castle followed by an archive photograph showing the early Glaxo facility in the town. More images show workers at the facility producing the medicine Penicillin during the 1940s. Another aerial view of the Glaxo production facility at Ulverston in Cumbria. Title: Ulverston Views both inside and outside the production facility of equipment and people going about their business. A man walks along a path outside the Glaxo facility at Barnard Castle. Swans and other birds paddle in the river beside the Glaxo facility at Ware in Hertfordshire. Inside Glaxo Operations at Barnard Castle workmen in protective clothing transport, blend and formulate bulk chemicals. At another a worker watches over a conveyor machine that is sealing vials. Exterior views of the Glaxo facility, inside employee at work on production lines for Sterile medicines followed by another the Liquids facility producing inhalation and Topicals medicine and in a third cephalosporins and anti-biotic medicines. In the Sterile cephalosporins facility two workers in facemasks watch over a convey or vials during the production process. Computers are also working to monitor production. In another part of computers watch over a large contains producing a new medicine, ceftazidime. A workman comes over and checks the readings. In a medical facility a doctor takes the blood pressure of a man lying on an examination table while in the production facility ceftazidime is being produced and poured into vials via a computerised conveyor machine, a nurse tends to her patient in a hospital. In the Sterile facilities employees work to produce medicines in syringes, vials and ampoules. Traffic travels along a dual carriageway during foggy weather changes to show ampoules and promotional images of the stomach ulcer drug Zantac. More vials and ampoules of the drug travel along a production convey with a gas burner is used to seal the glass ampoules. In the Liquids facilities small glass bottles and tubes travel along conveyor where the machine fills them with the appropriate medicines. Employees mix various bulk powder with liquids which are poured into the bottles seen previously. In the Topical facility another production line produces tubes of cream and ointments and lotions. General views of various production lines featured in this sequence. Two men look over paperwork relating to safe working practices, various safety signs around the facility. General views inside a large warehouse with men working a number of large forklifts moving pallets of boxes around the site. One man on a motorised forklift transports a pallet into the back of an articulated lorry which pulls away and departs docking bay. An aerial of the Barnard Castle facility changes to a staff training session taking place in a canteen. In another room a woman stands at an overhead projector talking to a group of other workers sitting around her, another training session. Exterior of Manor House, a Glaxo training facility, changes to that of pieces of art erected along the banks of the Tees as part of the Waymark Project. Local children plant a tree and help to clear a pond at the school. A sample of water from the pond is taken and tested to environmental standards by a Glaxo employee. Children swim in the pool at the Teesdale Sports Centre in Barnard Castle while games of badminton and table tennis take place in a sports hall. The film returns to the Glaxo factory and a woman in protective clothing watches over a medicine production line. The film changes to nurses working on a children’s ward in a hospital. More views of workers on a production line and images of new products; Zofran, Migrane and Flutinase. In a laboratory men and women work to test various products for possible future medicines. The film ends on a montage of images showing ampoules being produced. End credit: Produced for Glaxo Operations Barnard Castle by Turners Visual Communications Newcastle upon Tyne Title: Quality Medicines for the World End credit: Acknowledgement. Corporate Television Networks