vue - Industry and agriculture in Britain, 1960's - Film 30773

A film about industry and agriculture in Britain - history and new innovations - especially atomic power. The white cliffs of Dover, seagulls calling, fields above the cliffs. A small fishing village, cottages on heather-covered slopes, rowing boats. A dock with large steamers and cranes. A lake amid mountains, a field of corn. A thatched cottage by a river then Battersea power station by the Thames in London. Farmland then a busy street with a green London bus. A (Massy-Harris make) combine-harvester pulled by an open-topped tractor. Women in a factory. Business men and women cross a bridge over the Thames in London, buses (with an advert for Dulux), taxis, cars. People visit a stately home. New high rise flats - glass and blue painted metal. An elongated globe; a square drawn around the British Isles and lines drawn to show its latitude. Closer up, a 'Europe' label on the continent - commentary on trade with lines drawn in for trade routes with the Netherlands, France, Germany, Spain, down towards the Mediterranean and across to America. The boundaries between England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland (shown as a whole) are drawn onto the map. A steel works from outside. A textiles factory; rows of women with foot operated electric sewing machines. Pottery; a dresser filled with patterned crockery. A half-built ship, a lathe, rows of new cars, a laboratory with rows of chemicals. An aeroplane with twin propeller engines on each wing and 'BOAC' on the side takes off. A man looks at pressure gauges (?) The steel works; a steam train on tracks outside, smoking chimneys. Portraits of British inventors including Sir Charles Stevenson. A steel furnace. The use of steel in other industries - a chassis frame (?) is welded together. Lengths of cloth, a diagram of the Spinning Jenny and later developments on it. Mechanical looms. The making of synthetic fibres - nylon etc. A potter's workshop; a wheel is used with a mould to make a bowl and the golden edging is added to a fired and glazed cup. Crates of pottery labelled 'Chicago' loaded onto a ship. A coal mine; miners use machines to break up coal and load it onto carts with shovels. A map of Great Britain coloured black to show minefields, orange for steel works, blue for the textile industry and green for pottery. Battersea power station, telegraph wires, inside a power station - control panel. Experiments with new techniques in a laboratory. On the map the gulf stream, rain fall and the prevailing Western wind are drawn with arrows. Cattle farming in the West; a herd of Jersey cows. The South; grain harvesting. Fishing boats in Ireland, fish unloaded in baskets on chains and transported in steam trains. Some diesel engines. A map of Britain with her railways drawn on in red lines. A statue of George Stevenson and his first model, the 'Rocket' steam engine, in a museum. A motorway, a canal with small powered barges seen from a bridge. Ship building, men work from layers of scaffolding, welding and fitting parts. The ship afloat, her rudder and propeller. Imports of food are unloaded in crates from a ship. London; Piccadilly Circus, St Paul's, London bridge opens to let out a large steamer. Oxford Street, shops including C&A and Wels 'the World's Largest Furriers'. Queen Elizabeth on the throne, the house of commons, Big Ben strikes. A parade of soldiers on horses. Hunting; redcoats and their hounds cross a country road, cars stopped for them. A cricket game on the village green. Harvesting, the furnace, pottery, electricity, and back over the white cliffs of Dover.