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)