Ocean Gateway - Southampton
Series
- Series Name
- Looking At Britain
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- COI synopsis: The traveller disembarking at Britain’s "ocean gateway" sees only a little of the remarkable features of the port which this film records - the vast bulk of a great liner [the Queen Elizabeth] being berthed with hair’s-breadth precision dead on time; the "turn-round" of such a liner, from refuelling to painting, repairs, and loading of mail, cargo and stores, in forty-eight hours; and the shore organisation geared to deal with many hundreds of thousands of passengers a year.
- Keywords
- Ships and boats; Scenery and travel
- Written sources
- The National Archives INF 6 /1053
COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
Central Film Library Catalogue 1971-72, p 216. Used in synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 920/31
- Credits:
-
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Colonial Office
- Cutter
- Eric Thiper
- Producer
- Gerald Cookson
- Production Co.
- Kinocrat Films Ltd
- Commentator
- Neville Dawson
- Director
- Odran Walsh
- Commentator
- W.T.A. Munn
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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- Phone
- 020 7255 1444
- Fax
- 020 7580 7503
- Address
- 21 Stephen Street
London W1T 1LN - Notes
- The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).
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How to cite this record
'Ocean Gateway - Southampton', Looking At Britain Issue No. 31, 1962. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/326957 (Accessed 06 Mar 2025)