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Ocean Gateway - Southampton

Series

Series Name
Looking At Britain

Issue

Issue No.
31
Date Released
1962
Completion
Apr 1962
Length of issue (in feet)
401
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Ocean Gateway - Southampton

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 1
Summary
COI synopsis: The traveller disembarking at Britain’s "ocean gateway" sees only a little of the remarkable features of the port which this film records - the vast bulk of a great liner [the Queen Elizabeth] being berthed with hair’s-breadth precision dead on time; the "turn-round" of such a liner, from refuelling to painting, repairs, and loading of mail, cargo and stores, in forty-eight hours; and the shore organisation geared to deal with many hundreds of thousands of passengers a year.
Keywords
Ships and boats; Scenery and travel
Written sources
The National Archives INF 6   /1053
COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
Central Film Library Catalogue   1971-72, p 216. Used in synopsis
COI Reference
MI 920/31
Credits:
Sponsor
Central Office of Information (COI)
Sponsor
Colonial Office
Cutter
Eric Thiper
Producer
Gerald Cookson
Production Co.
Kinocrat Films Ltd
Commentator
Neville Dawson
Director
Odran Walsh
Commentator
W.T.A. Munn

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Film Archive

Name
British Film Institute (BFI)
Email
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Web
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Phone
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Fax
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Address
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Notes
The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).
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