Seawards the Great Ships
7.2 /10 1 Votes
Director Hilary Harris Music director Iain Hamilton Language English | 7/10 IMDb Genre Documentary, Short Duration Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer John Grierson , Cliff Hanley Release date 1961 (1961) Cast Kenneth Kendall, Bryden Murdoch Screenplay John Grierson, Cliff Hanley Similar movies The Bowler and the Bunnet (1967), Windjammer (1958), Deep Water (2006), Kon-Tiki (1950), Here Is Always Somewhere Else (2007) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Seawards the Great Ships is a 1961 British short documentary film directed by Hilary Harris. It won an Academy Award in 1962 for Best Short Live Action Subject, the first Scottish film to win an Oscar. 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.
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