Learning on ScreenManchester Ship Canal
Series
- Series Name
- Looking At Britain
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- COI synopsis: As tugs and pilot bring a foreign cargo boat up the Manchester Ship Canal to the Port of Manchester, thirty-six miles inland, the special features of this great artificial waterway are revealed - locks with an 80-foot lift, a road-bridge with the biggest span in Europe, a swinging "water-bridge" carrying a smaller canal over the main one, and one of Britain’s largest oil docks.
- Keywords
- Ships and boats; Transport; Business and commerce
- Written sources
- The National Archives INF 6 /1478
COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
Central Film Library Catalogue 1971-72, p 216. Used for synopsis.
- COI Reference
- MI 920/26
- Credits:
-
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Colonial Office
- Production Co.
- Max Munden Productions Ltd
- Support services
- Maxwell Munden
- Commentator
- Maxwell Munden
- Producer
- Maxwell Munden
- Director
- Maxwell Munden
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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- Fax
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- Address
- 21 Stephen Street
London W1T 1LN - Notes
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