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Film & Video Catalogue: Item Detail

Film Number

6581

Title

UNDERNEATH THE ARCHES

Producer

Central Electricity Generating Board

Date

1975

Gauge

16mm

Colour

colour

Sound

sound

Running Time

10 mins 20 secs

Description

Opening with railway archive stills from Leicester Museum, this film looks at past and present construction work on the Dock Street railway viaduct outside Preston including the latest construction processes from the mid 1970s, scenes from a laboratory in Carrington and Bold Power Station near St Helens. Explanatory graphics and animation throughout.

 

 



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