MORE great TITLES
These are not just for you . . they make super and unusual gifts too !
many of these are still only on VHS .. but only whilst stocks last
MERSEYSIDE MEMORIES VOL.1 - LINERS & LAUNCHES
A selection of films reviving the days when Liverpool was home to some of the world's greatest liners. Liners include: Aquitania Mauretania I, Mauretania II in 1938, Duchess of Atholl, Empress of Britain I, Empress of Scotland I, QE2 and Windsor Castle. Launches include: Ark Royal II in 1950 and Windsor Castle in 1958 ; the raising of the Empress of Canada in Gladstone Dock in 1954 & footage of the QE2. Commentary by Martin Jenkins.
53-mins . . . OV954D . . . DVD only . . . . . . £15.00
MERSEYSIDE MEMORIES VOL.2 - LINK & LOOP ELECTRIC RAILWAYS
The Link & Look Electric Railways of Merseyside - features the different types of electic railways that have served Merseyside, including the former American Style Mersey Railway Stock on lines to Rock Ferry & New Brighton, the 502 class on the routes from Exchange Station to Southport & Ormskirk, 503 class round the Loop, plus 508 & 509 classes in their early days.
60-mins . . . OV958D . . . DVD only .... ..... £15.00
MERSEYSIDE MEMORIES VOL.3 - BOATS, PLANES, TRAMS, TRAINS
Features a mix of all aspects of Merseyside Transpon - Ships, Trains, Trams, Overhead, & uses 70% of new material.
45-mins . . . OV959D . . . DVD only .... ..... £10.00
MERSEYSIDE MEMORIES VOL.4 - FERRIES ACROSS THE MERSEY
Featuring footage, some from 1901, of numerous boats in action on the Mersey.
60-mins . . . OV961D . . . DVD only .... ..... £15.00
MERSEYSIDE MEMORIES VOL.5 - ISLE OF MAN STEAM SHIP CO
Featuring footage of this famous steam packet service, used and loved by millions over the decades.
60-mins . . . OV961D . . . DVD only .... ..... £15.00
MERSEYSIDE MEMORIES VOL.6 -
LIVERPOOL - NO TRAMS TO THE PIER HEAD
Specially assembled to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the closure of Liverpool Trams in Sept '57, this programme contains Green Goddesses, the Dockers Umbrella (Liverpool Overhead Railway), the famous Ferries Across the Mersey & long-gone scences in the city of the '50s.
(This title has been brought within the Merseyside Memories series as Vol 6)
90 mins . . . OV461D . . . DVD only .... ..... £12.00
MERSEYSIDE MEMORIES VOL.7 - STEAM ON THE WIRRAL
Archive film from as long ago as 1919 featuring steam action around the Wirral, centred on Birkenhead. Includes many pre-nationalisation views . .
(This title has been brought within the Merseyside Memories series as Vol 7)
85-mins . . . OV457D . . . DVD only .... ..... £18.00
MERSEYSIDE MEMORIES VOL.8 - STEAM AROUND LIVERPOOL
Features pre-war activity at Lime Street; Gateacre - Aintree Central service; glories of Edge Hill grid iron; North Liverpool Line; Bootle Branch; Liverpool - Southport Expresses; steam at Brunswick, Central, Exchange, Sandhills, Kirkdale, Fazakerley; 15 Guinea Special.
90-mins . . . OV456D . . . DVD only .... ..... £18.00
PADDLE STEAMER MEMORIES
Features archive footage of over 40 legendary vessels in action, in areas including the South Coast, Bristol Channel, Llandudno, Blackpool, the Clyde, Loch Lomand, the Tay, the Forth, the Humber & the Thames.
90-mins ... OV438 ... £16.00
A FRED DIBNAH DVD SET
only on DVD now, no VHS left, sorry.
1.FRED DIBNAH ~ All Steamed Up .. BH102D . . . visit with Fred the Cheshire Steam Fair; features 10-ton road roller 'Betsy' & road loco 'Atlas'; plus 'At Work' in the Dibnah Steam Workshop. 55 mins £12.99
2.FRED DIBNAH ~ The Ups and Downs of Chimneys .. BH103D . . . features Fred demolishing chimneys; one is Rugby Mill Chimney at Oldham which is just 4'6'' from the next building. 76 mins ... £12.99
3.FRED DIBNAH'S INDUSTRIAL AGE .. BH110D . . . Britain's industrial heritage looking at wind, water and steam ; mills & factories ; iron & steel ; mining ; railways ; ships & shipbuilding. 150 mins VHS & DVD .... both £16.99
4.Fred Dibnah : Made in Britain Vol 1 ... (Episodes 1 - 6) ... GT107D
Features Fred Dibnah's epic journey around Britain on a 1912 traction engine in search of our industrial & engineering past. Vol 1 contains the first 6 episodes of Fred's last TV series. - 174 mins .. £19.99
5. Fred Dibnah : Made in Britain Vol. 2 (Episodes 7 - 12) ... GT108D
Fred travels around Britain on his traction engine searching for our industrial & engineering past. - 174 mins .. £19.99
SCOTLAND ... 11 volumes of Lovely Scenic Titles
many areas of The Highlands and Hebrides ;
no commentaries, just relaxing music and gorgeous scenery.
1. AROUND ARDNAMURCHAN . . CO105 .. Acharacle, Ardtoe, Glenuig, Loch Shiel & Moidart. 46 mins £13.99
2. FORT WILLIAM and LOCHABER .. CO106 .. Fort William, Ballachulish, Glencoe, Onich, Ardgour, Strontian, Kingairloch, Banavie, Spean Bridge, and a variety of scenes in between. 47 mins £13.99
3. HEBRIDEAN ISLES No 1 . . CO107 .. Features a look at isles of Canna, Muck, Eigg & Rum. 48 mins £13.99
4. HEBRIDES SOUTH . . CO108 ... islands of Colonsay, Islay, Jura & Gigha, plus a paddle on the Waverley. 57 mins £13.99
5. INVERNESS, THE BLACK ISLE & STRATHSPEY . . CO109 .. Loch Laggan, Newtonmore, Kingussie, Feshie, Cairngorm, Aviemore, Boat of Garten, Strathspey Steam Railway, Grantown, Carrbridge, Cawdor Castle, Culloden, Inverness, Loch Ness, Urquart Castle, Strathpeffer, Dingwall, Cromarty, and many places between. 48 mins £13.99
6. ISLE OF MULL .. CO101 .. includes short sequence on Mull Railway, and Tobermory, Iona, Staffa, and puffins on Lungha Island. 48 mins £13.99
7. NORTH WEST SCOTLAND .. CO110 .. north from Ullapool to Lochinver, Kylesku, Scourie, Kinlochbervie, Durness & Cape Wrath. 44 mins £13.99
8. OBAN & ARGYLL .. CO111 .. Ballachulish to Oban; Lismore, Seil & Easdale Islands; Inveraray ; Auchindrain & Kilmartin ; Lochgilphead, the Crinan Canal with steam puffer to Ardishaig & Tarbert. 50 mins £13.99
9. SKYE, LOCHALSH & WESTER ROSS .. CO113 .. through Glenshiel, over Ratagan to Glenelg, across to Skye, back to Kyle, up to Plockton & over to Applecross % Diabeg, by Gairloch, Inverewe Altbea to Ullapool. 53 mins £13.99
10. WEST ARDNAMURCHAN .. CO114 .. Kilchoan, Mingary Castle, and many of the peninsular's features plus the ferry across to Tobermory on Mull. 51 mins £13.99
ARCHIVE FIREFIGHTING . . FIRE APPLIANCES
two videos that illustrate the firefighter's skills, and the dangers they face,
and a closer look at some of the engines and appliances of the past.
1. ROARING SEVENTIES .. VF102 .. collection of archive news film from the '70s featuring many now rare and interesting fire appliances, both on show and in action, fighting major fires in and around the towns and cities of the North of England. 52 mins £18.50
2. VINTAGE FIREGROUND Vol 1 .. VF104 .. more archive film, this time from the '50s, featuring Dennis F7s, ATVs, Commers, Austins, Fordsons, Bedfords, and much more. 55 mins £18.50
G.P.O. FILM UNIT
HISTORICAL ARCHIVE FILMS,
OFTEN MADE AS "SHORTS" FOR THE CINEMA
now available on DVD ; average 3 short films to a video.
sorry .. not in NTSC.
all £19.99 each
1. BRITAIN AT WAR - THE FIRST DAYS GP516DVD ...
The first of 2 films which illustrate with utter realism, the effect of the first 2 years of the war on the British people. This volume contains 3 films: THE FIRST DAYS (1939) directed by Humphrey Jennings, Harry Watt, Pat Jackson. The preparation for war. THE FRONT LINE (1939) directed by Harry Watt. Dover becomes a front line target for the Germans. SQUADRON 992 (1940) directed by Harry Watt. A barrage balloon squadron is trained and deployed to South Queensferry, in the wake of the Luftewaffe raid in October 1939.
... DVD .. 74-mins £19.99
2. BRITAIN AT WAR - UNDER FIRE Vol. 2 . . GP517DVD ...
features 5 films: Britain Can Take It (1940), Britain at Bay (1940), The Story of an Air Communique (1940), Christmas Under Fire (1941) & Men of the Lightship (1940).
STORY OF AN AIR COMMUNIQUE (1940) with men of the Royal Air Force. Processing the statistics for destroyed enemy aircraft. BRITAIN CAN TAKE IT (1940) directed by Humphrey Jennings , Harry Watt. Used by President Roosevelt to help swing US opinion behind Britain. BRITAIN AT BAY (1940) commentary by J.B. Priestly. Czechoslovakia, Poland, Norway, Holland and Belguim have fallen ... MEN OF THE LIGHTSHIP (1940) directed by David MacDonald. The Luftwaffe bombing of the East Dudgeon Lightship. CHRISTMAS UNDER FIRE (1941) directed by Harry Watt. A despatch from London to America showing Christmas in the Blitz.
... DVD .. 57-mins £19.99
3. BRITAIN IN THE THIRTIES Vol 1 .. GP518DVD ...
first of 3 programmes featuring a selection of films which vividly depict society in the 1930s, from the harshness of trawler fishing & coal mining to how the working population spent their free time. Vol. 1 contains: Features GRANTON TRAWLER (John Grierson, 1934) about a trawler out fishing on Viking bank. "The one credit I was absolutely insistent on was putting my name on as cameraman...It was a solo effort"; COAL face (Cavalcanti, 1935), a prestigious experiment in sound using coal-mining shots; A JOB IN A MILLION (Evelyn Spice, 1937), a documentary about a Cockney lad training to be a messenger boy and a perfect example of the breakthrough effected by the GPO Film Unit at a time when working-class people were usually presented as merely comic characters; SPARE TIME, (Jennings, 1939), showing how workers in the steel, cotton and coal industries spend their spare time. Jennings differed from earlier British documentarists in stressing worker's individuality instead of presenting them as symbols of the dignity of labour. Also includes THE CITY, (Ralph Elton, 1939), an analysis of the growth and development of London.
.. DVD.. 73-mins £19.99
4b. BRITAIN IN THE THIRTIES Vol 2 .. GP519DVD ...
A further collection of these superbly produced films. Contains: FEATURES THE SAVING OF BILL BLEWITT set in Mousehole(Harry Watt, 1937), a film made in documentary style about two fishermen whose boat is wrecked but who manage to save up enough to buy another; NORTH SEA (Harry Watt, 1938), which dramatically reconstructs an actual incident in which an Aberdeen trawler was assisted by Wick radio station when it got into difficulties in a storm - the first successful example of the drama-documentary; THE ISLANDERS (Maurice Harvey, 1939), a beautifully photographed documentary showing life on Eriskay, Guernsey and Inner Farne, islands that are linked to Britain by means of the Post Office, and A MIDSUMMER DAYS WORK (1939) about laying an 18 mile underground telephone cable in the Chilterns from Amersham to Aylesbury during that ominously perfect summer that preceded the outbreak of the Second World War.
.. DVD .. 86-mins £19.99
4c. BRITAIN IN THE THIRTIES Vol 3 .. GP519DVD ...
A further collection of these superbly produced films. Contains: THE KING'S STAMP (1935) directed by William Coldstream. The designing and printing of the King George V Silver Jubilee stamp, followed by a short history of postage stamps, THE FAIRY OF THE PHONE (1936) directed by William Coldstream. A fanciful comedy on how to use the telephone, NEWS FOR THE NAVY (1937) directed by Norman McLaren. Following the course of a package from letter box to delivery to HMS Incredible in Bermuda, N or NW (1937) directed by Len Lye. The importance of correctly addressing a letter of apology, ROADWAYS (1937) directed by Stuart Legg and William Coldstream. The history of transport, especially the growth in road traffic, THE HORSEY MAIL (1938) directed by Pat Jackson. The mail is delivered by boat when part of East Norfolk is hit by floods, MONY A PICKLE (1939), produced by Alberto Cavalcanti. The Post Office Savings Bank is a natural target for Scottish thrift, NINE FOR SIX (1939). A telegram saves the day when a football team loses its only ball just before a match. ..
DVD .. 90-mins £19.99
LONDON FESTIVAL YEAR 1951 .. DVD ..
A collection of films in celebration of the 1951 Festival of Britain. Features the last films made by Humphrey Jennings (FAMILY PORTRAIT) and Richard Massingham (BRIEF CITY - made by the Observer newspaper). The other titles are FESTIVAL IN LONDON, with a superb score by William Alwyn, and a bonus film, DESIGNED IN BRITAIN, a tribute to British Design, with Terence Conran as Technical Advisor. Please note that the orchestral soundtrack on Brief City is somewhat degraded.
.. DVD .. 66-mins £19.99
8. NIGHT MAIL / WEST HIGHLAND. . GP520DVD …
This documentary tells the story of the overnight postal express from Euston to Glasgow through the eyes of the signalmen & stationmasters as well as the men who deal with the mail en route. Also included are the classic verse by W.H. Auden and music by Benjamin Britten. The final cost of this production, which was made in 1936, was £3,546. West Highland is a 1960 BBC film that gives an impressionistic, romantic yet factually precise account of a day on the West Highland steam railway line. All the technical information is there but there is also Gaelic singing and Betjeman/Auden style poetry in an innovative narrative collage.
.. 65-mins .. £19.99
For BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE vols 1 - 6, see our Rail & Steam page'
titles include: ON AND OFF THE RAILS : SEE BRITAIN BY TRAIN : RUNNING A RAILWAY
RESHAPING BRITISH RAILWAYS : OFF THE BEATEN TRACK : THE ART OF TRAVEL
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