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Fish ‘N’ Ships: Volume 2 (1987 Video)

Subject
History

Distribution
Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 43 min., 1995 sale: £35.25 (inclusive)

Three films showing the the fishing industry in Grimsby and Hull during its heyday in the half century up to the 1970s. Part 1: Follows a giant freezer trawler, one of the then mighty Ross fleet from...
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30s Britain Volume 1: Granton Trawler (2006)

Director
John Grierson; Alberto Cavalcanti; Humphrey Jennings; Ralph Elton

Subject
Film studies

Distribution
Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 75 minutes), £12.99

Collection of five films from the GPO Film Unit. ‘Granton Trawler’ (1934) directed by John Grierson. About a trawler fishing on the Viking Bank. ‘Coal Face’ (1935) directed by Alberto Cavalcanti. An...
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Fish ‘N’ Ships (1987 Video)

Subject
History

Distribution
Out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 80 min., 2001 sale (QL): £12.99 (inclusive)

The two films (40 min each) present the lives and times history of Grimsby’s fishermen and their families from early in the century to the late 1980s, told through the words and memories of local men,...
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Voyages of the Sea Harvesters

Director
J. Evans Gordon; Alex Lowe; James Blair; Tom Ralston; Ken Neil

Subject
Agriculture

Distribution
Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 65 minutes), £20.41

Collection of films from the 1930s documenting the working lives of fishermen who worked on the fleets during the 1930s. Originally silent, the films have been enhanced with music scores and commentaries by...
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Fishermen at War: Atlantic Trawler (1941)

Director
Ivan Scott; Frank Sainsbury; J.B. Holmes; Frank Elton

Subject
History

Distribution
Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 63 minutes), £16.33

War-time documentaries about the dangers faced in the Atlantic by merchant seamen on convoys and the contribution made to the war effort by all civilian seamen. SAILORS WITHOUT UNIFORM (1940) - The lives...
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Granton Trawler (1934 Video)

Director
John Grierson

Producer
John Grierson

Subject
Agriculture

Distribution
Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 11 min.

Shows a trawler out fishing on the Viking Bank. ‘In the thirties we were all in it together,' Grierson said. ‘We could all edit well. We could all write well. There was no part we couldn’t do, even...
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North Sea (1939 Video)

Director
Harry Watt

Producer
Alberto Cavalcanti

Subject
History

Distribution
Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 31 min.

Features Aberdeen deep-sea fishing trawlermen and shows how the ship-to-shore radio service safeguards the lives of seamen. Reconstructs one of the many incidents which occured in the big gale of 1937,...
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30s Britain Volume 2: North Sea (2006)

Director
John Grierson; Alberto Cavalcanti; Humphrey Jennings; Ralph Elton

Subject
Film studies; History

Distribution
Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 86 minutes), £12.99

Collection of films from the GPO Film Unit. ‘North Sea’ (1938) directed by Harry Watt. An Aberdeen trawler in trouble gets assistance from Wick coastguard radio station, operated by the GPO. The first...
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