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DetailsOriginal Format: 16mm Colour: Black & White Sound: Mute Duration: 30 secs Credits: Organisation: Tyne Tees Television Genre: TV News
Subject: INDUSTRY ships
Summary Mute Tyne Tees Television footage showing a visit to Tyneside by John Durival Kemp, 1st Viscount Rochdale. The film shows him being escorted around a shipyard, possibly John Readhead and Sons at South Shields. This report was transmitted 1 May 1968.
Description Mute Tyne Tees Television footage showing a visit to Tyneside by John Durival Kemp, 1st Viscount Rochdale. The film shows him being escorted around a shipyard, possibly John Readhead and Sons at South Shields. This report was transmitted 1 May 1968.
The footage opens with Lord Rochdale being escorted through a shipyard. He looks over the container ship Sea Freightliner II, which is being fitted out along the River Tyne. He looks over another ship under construction on a nearby slipway. He listens intently as the man guiding him speaks.
