TAY BRIDGE DISASTER

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Places:

  • Dundee

Subjects:

  • Transport

Genres:

  • Historical

Decade:

  • 1960s

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Title: TAY BRIDGE DISASTER

Reference number: 2855

Date: 1967

Director: filmed by Ian Rintoul

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 6.50 mins

Description: Reconstruction of the events leading up to, and re-enactment of the Tay Bridge disaster December 1879, using black and white contemporary stills, live action footage of steam locomotives and actors.

See also film refs. 2700, 2701 and 2856

Credits: nar. Jim Cuthbert

Shotlist: Reconstruction of the events leading up to, and re-enactment of the Tay Bridge disaster Dec. 1879, using b/w contemporary stills, live action footage of steam locomotives and actors (6.50)