GRAND UNION CANAL
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Title: GRAND UNION CANAL
Reference number: 0108
Date: 1938
Director: d. John Elder
Production company: Elder Dalrymple Productions
Sound: silent
Original format: 35mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 8.00 mins
Description:
Map of canal routes from London to Birmingham and the industrial north. The film shows canal barges loading and unloading at docks.
Original 35mm negative is preserved at the British Film Institute. National Library of Scotland holds a 16mm print.
See also http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150001955# [last accessed 10/09/2020]
Credits:
scenario David C. Coulsland
ass. Isabel Elder
Shotlist: credits (0.18) map of canal routes from London to Birmingham and the industrial north (1.18) 'Modern' transport by road, rail and air (1.56) canal barges unloading at docks and loading up 'over the side' from cargo liners. Factory wharf (5.59) horse drawn barges (6.45) tugs (7.45)