Tales from the Shipyard: Britain's Shipbuilding Heritage on Film
This double-disc DVD brings together over 5 hours of documentary film about Britain's shipbuilding heritage - from scenes of jubilant workers celebrating spectacular launches in the early 1900s to King George V and Queen Mary's morale-boosting trip to Northern England's shipyards in the tail end of the Great War
from the planning and building of the luxury liner S S Olympic to stunning lyrical documentaries such as Shipyard (1935) and The Sea Shall Test Her (1954). The DVD set is completed by an illustrated booklet of new essays and notes.
All Films newly transferred to High-Definition from original film elements.
Comes with fully illustrated 100 page book containing contextualising essays on all of the films included