Metadata
WORK ID: NEFA 22982 (Master Record)
| Title | Year | Date |
| ESSO NORTHUMBRIA | 1969 | 1969-01-01 |
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Details
Original Format: Standard 8 Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 2 mins 44 secs Credits: Alan Johnson Genre: Amateur Subject: Ships Monarchy/Royalty Media/Communications Celebrations/Ceremonies |
| Summary An amateur film produced by Alan Johnson of the oil tanker Esso Northumbria begins with the vessel on the slipway at Swan Hunter’s shipyard in Wallsend shortly before its launch on the 2nd May, 1969. The film intercuts footage from a BBC Look North news report of the launch filmed from a television screen with actual shots of crowds having watched the launch leaving the area along the south bank of the River Tyne. |
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Description
An amateur film produced by Alan Johnson of the oil tanker Esso Northumbria begins with the vessel on the slipway at Swan Hunter’s shipyard in Wallsend shortly before its launch on the 2nd May, 1969. The film intercuts footage from a BBC Look North news report of the launch filmed from a television screen with actual shots of crowds having watched the launch leaving the area along the south bank of the River Tyne.
From Leslie Street in Wallsend, the large crude carrier Esso Northumbria...
An amateur film produced by Alan Johnson of the oil tanker Esso Northumbria begins with the vessel on the slipway at Swan Hunter’s shipyard in Wallsend shortly before its launch on the 2nd May, 1969. The film intercuts footage from a BBC Look North news report of the launch filmed from a television screen with actual shots of crowds having watched the launch leaving the area along the south bank of the River Tyne.
From Leslie Street in Wallsend, the large crude carrier Esso Northumbria dominates the skyline of terraced houses. Scaffolding surrounds the vessel on its slipway at Swan Hunters shipyard. Men work around the ships bow, on deck three men wave down at the camera below; beside them a Union Jack set in a white frame blows in the wind. The camera pans upward along a vertical line of numbers painted onto the Northumbria’s bow that measures the distance between the bottom of the hull (the keel) and he waterline.
On a television screen a BBC Look North news report with Mike Neville on the launching of the Esso Northumbria by Princess Anne. Sir James Hunter stands beside the Princess as a bottle champagne is smashed against the ships bow, the Esso Northumbria begins to slip into the River Tyne.
A large crowd watches looks out onto the Esso Northumbria in the River Tyne; the launch over they clamber over rocks along the shoreline to leave passing a sign that reads ‘Danger Keep Off’. The crowd make their way along a street, the Esso Northumbria dominating the skyline. In the air a helicopter flies overhead cutting back to the television screen and aerial views of the Northumbria in the water and of another tanker at sea.
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