Seawards the Great Ships (1960)

Name: Seawards the Great Ships
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1960-01-01

29m

Running Time

Plot.

Documentary about shipbuilding on the Clyde. In 1960, Glasgow and other towns and ports on the River Clyde, on the west coast of Scotland, were still one of the world's great centres of shipbuilding. The film gives an idea of the business of building a ship - the largest moving thing made by man - from the naval architects who design her to the workmen, the shipbuilders in the yard, through to a ship's launching.

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This Movie Is About.

industry

Cast & Crew.

Bryden Murdoch

Narrator

Kenneth Kendall

Narrator

Marcus Dods

Conductor

Hilary Harris

Director

Jim Macaulay

Animation

John Grierson

Writer

Clifford Hanley

Script

Iain Hamilton

Composer

Media.

Details.

Release Date
January 1, 1960

Status
Released

Running Time
29m

Genres
Documentary

Wiki.

Seawards the Great Ships is a 1961 British short documentary film directed by Hilary Harris. It won an Oscar in 1962 for Best Short Live Action Subject, the first Scottish film to win an Academy Award. The film chronicles the Shipbuilding industry of the River Clyde during the early 1960s, featuring footage from the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, John Brown & Company and Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company. It was produced by Glasgow-based Templar Films for the Clyde Shipbuilders' Association and the Central Office of Information (COI). It was released onto Blu-ray by Panamint in 2010 as part of their 'Faces of Scotland' compilation.It includes dialogue between shipyard workers, but this is all scripted. They had hoped to use genuine dialogue between shipyard workers, but this included too many swearwords to be usable.