7.0
Le capiage
1949
Seawards the Great Ships (1960)
March 4, 196029mEN
7.1
10 votes
Overview
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.
Director
Hilary HarrisWriter
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Status
Released
Original Language
English
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N/A
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Production Companies
Templar Film StudiosFilms of Scotland CommitteeClyde Shipbuilders AssociationCOI
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CinemaSerf
7.0A crane swings over a dockyard on Clydeside and a rousingly scored sequence illustrates some of the great ships that have been built and launched around the city of Glasgow over recent years. It was here that the famous "Cutty Sark" was built in the Victorian era. Cargo ships, warships, liners, tugs - you name it and their types have been made here since. The designers draw and calculate how the ship will function. It's almost as if it were a 3D jigsaw puzzle, based on the architect's paper-based template. Those designs are then tested in tanks that can simulate benign - and less - sea conditi…
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