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North British / Today and Every Day

Catalogue No: PDC2024

Director: Cecil H Williamson, E J Fancy, John S Abbott Jnr, Edward Cook
Language: English
Region Code: All Regions : PAL
Format: DVD B/W 1.33:1
No of Discs: 1
BBFC Classification: E - Exempt
Running Time: 77 mins

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A rare and believed lost film Today and Every Day made in 1947, covers the history of Britain's railways, and a contemporary account of all aspects of operations on the railway system. It features some of the crack expresses of the day, including the Golden Arrow and a footplate ride on the Cheltenham Flyer. Then a visit to Swindon A shed to see a GWR King class locomotive under construction.
Also included is North British (1949) a look inside the famous Springburn locomotive manufacturing factory, which includes the construction of the 2000th locomotive built for South African Railways, Bartholomew Diaz. Plus Locomotives For the Second Front (1943) a short newsreel item about building War Department Austerity engines at Springburn. Click here for a film clip of North British.

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Portraits of Railwaymen

Catalogue No: PDC2005

Director: Max Munden
Actors: Leonard Sachs, Ted Wilson
Language: English
Region Code: All Regions : PAL
Format: DVD B/W & Colour 1.33:1
No of Discs: 1
BBFC Classification: E - Exempt
Running Time: 71 mins

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A collection of vintage films about life in the British Railway industry in the 1940s and 1950s. The programme comprises:
The Railwaymen (1946) - A fascinating insight into the lives of railwaymen and the wide variety of job opportunities available.
Shunter Black's Night Off (1941) - Joe Black's evening pipe is interrupted by a Luftwaffe raid on his marshalling yard on the Southern Railway.
Portrait of an Engineer (1954) - a day in the life of a production engineer at the Vulcan Foundry.
British Locomotives (1959, colour) - locomotive manufacturers face the challenge of the British Railways modernisation programme to convert to diesel and diesel electric locomotives.

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Diamonds Were Forever

Catalogue No: PDC2014

Director: Eddie McConnell
Narrator: Ron Donachie, Douglas Eadie
Language: English
Region Code: All Regions : PAL
Format: DVD Colour 1.33:1
No of Discs: 1
BBFC Classification: E - Exempt
Running Time: 55 mins

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Channel 4's history of the North British Locomotive Company of Springburn Glasgow. The film details the story of Neilson Reid, Dubs & Co and Sharp Stewart which combined forces in 1903 to become the North British Locomotive Company.
Diamonds Were Forever also includes steam action of many surviving locomotives around the world and in Britain, including scenes of the legendary 1911-built wood burning engines of Paraguay, a steam rally in Melbourne, Australia, and steam-condensing giants on the South African veldt. Filmed by Eddie McConnell.

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Night Mail & Lines For All Seasons

Catalogue No: PDC2037

Director: Harry Watt, Basil Wright, Stephen Durell, Eddie McConnell
Producer: Harry Watt, Basil Wright
Cinematographer: H Fowle, F H Jones, Eddie McConnell
Film Editor: Basil Wright, R Q McNaughton, Pat Jackson
Sound Engineer: E A Pawley, C Sullivan
Writer: Basil Wright, Harry Watt, John Grierson, WH Auden
Music: Benjamin Britten
Narrator: Pat Jackson (Night Mail verse), John Shedden, MacDonald Hobley
Language: English
Region Code: All Regions : PAL
Format: DVD B/W & Colour 1.33:1
No of Discs: 1
BBFC Classification: E - Exempt
Running Time: 78 mins

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The superb GPO documentary Night Mail plus three classic Scottish films about the West Highland Railways never before released on DVD. The programme includes:
Night Mail (1936, b/w) - The overnight Postal Special from Euston to Scotland. One of the first films to epitomise the style of the classic British documentaries.
West Of Inverness (1939, b/w) - About the problems faced by a rural community and the growing importance of the railway from Inverness to Kyle of Lochalsh to communities threatened by depopulation.
The Line To Skye (1973, colour) - An Eddie McConnell film made to support the retention of the West Highland railway line from Inverness to Kyle of Lochalsh at a time when it was threatened with closure.
A Line For All Seasons (1980, colour) - A retrospective account of the building of the West Highland Railway line from Glasgow Queen Street to Mallaig. Filmed by Eddie McConnell.

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Waverley Steps

Catalogue No: PDC2025

Director: John Eldridge, Jean L Gray, Henry Cooper
Producer: Paul Fletcher, Alan Harper
Cinematographer: Martin Curtis & Roland Stafford; Ian Kennedy & Brian Easton; Jean L Gray
Film Editor: John Trumper
Writer: John Sommerfield, D M Elliot
Actors: N K Stroyberg (sailor), Jean G Patrick (fireman's girlfriend), Casting: Sadie Aitken, Gateway Theatre
Music: Graham Speedie, Herrick Bunney, Eric Roberts
Narrator: Ian Gilmour
Language: English
Region Code: All Regions : PAL
Format: DVD B/W & Colour 1.33:1
No of Discs: 1
BBFC Classification: E - Exempt
Running Time: 72 mins

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One of our most popular titles, Waverley Steps, John Eldridge's classic view of Edinburgh in 1948 produced for the first Edinburgh International Film Festival, makes its DVD debut. Centered around a day in the life of a railway fireman and other residents of Edinburgh. Recorded using location sound it offers a fly-on-the-wall view of Edinburgh life in a more leisurely era long gone. One of the classic documentaries.

Edinburgh filmed in 1966 in technicolor by Edinburgh film makers Campbell Harper and directed by Henry Cooper, tells the history of the city. Click here for film clip from Edinburgh.

Jean L Gray's film Northern Capital, a loving postcard from 1937, shows the sights of Edinburgh in glorious black and white. Originally silent, it is presented with music composed and performed by Graham Speedie.

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Scenic Branchlines of Devon & Cornwall

Catalogue No: PDC2023

Narrator: John Doyle
Language: English
Region Code: All Regions : PAL
Format: DVD Colour & B/W 1.33:1
No of Discs: 1
BBFC Classification: E - Exempt
Running Time: 82 mins

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A series of colourful trips on the lovely branchlines of Devon and Cornwall in the days of first generation British Rail Diesel Multiple Units - DMUs. Made in 1975 (Westward Television) and 1990 (Television South West) and presented by John Doyle. Also includes several bonus newsreel items from the last years of steam culled from the archives of Westward Television and Television South West, plus items about the opening of the Dart Valley Railway and the Bodmin & Wenford Railway.

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