PATHE GAZETTE - EMPRESS OF BRITAIN

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Places:

  • Glasgow

Subjects:

  • Ships and shipping

Genres:

  • Newsreel

Decade:

  • 1930s

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Title: PATHE GAZETTE - EMPRESS OF BRITAIN

Reference number: 8198

Date: [1930, June 16]

Production company: [ Pathe Gazette]

Sound: silent

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: Non-Fiction

Running time: 1.34 mins

Description: Newsreel footage of the naming and launch ceremony for the ship "Empress of Britain" at John Brown & Co (Clydebank) - which boasts of it being the "fastest Empire ship".

Shotlist: [shotlisted from speed corrected tape, manual control track]

Clydebank. £3,000,000 Fastest Empire Ship. "The Empress of Britain" - built for C.P.R. Quebec - Southampton Service. Named and launched by the Prince of Wales from John Brown's Ltd. famous shipyard. Shot of Prince of Wales getting to grips with the launch procedure of cutting the cord (0.33) c/u view from underside of ship as it slips along and into water (1.19) view from further back, crowds on shore, ship in water (1.34)