A tourist promotional film for the Tyne and Wear area that uses both moving and still images as well as endorsements from regional ambassadors Catherine Cookson and Steve Cram to sell the region as a tourist destination. The film shows some of the areas to visits from coast to rural countryside as well as cultural and culinary delights. In a travel agency a woman speaks with a travel agent about booking an overseas holiday, around them another customer flicks through a brochure for foreign...

A tourist promotional film for the Tyne and Wear area that uses both moving and still images as well as endorsements from regional ambassadors Catherine Cookson and Steve Cram to sell the region as a tourist destination. The film shows some of the areas to visits from coast to rural countryside as well as cultural and culinary delights. In a travel agency a woman speaks with a travel agent about booking an overseas holiday, around them another customer flicks through a brochure for foreign destinations while a third picks up a brochure for destinations within England. Looking north an aerial of the Tyne and Wear coastline changes to a still image of Marsden Rock near South Shields followed by a terrace of attractive cottages in a country village. A montage of both still and moving images featuring The Castle at Newcastle, an enamelled wine glass produced by William Beilby, the pit wheel at the Washington ‘F’ Pit Museum, small boats on the sea near Tynemouth Haven and shoppers walking past a department store window inside Eldon Square shopping centre. A still image of the Newcastle Quayside Sunday Market changes to a couple being served a meal in the restaurant at the Gosforth Park Hotel. A graphic showing a map of Great Britain, the camera moves in on the northeast region and lines appear to show the rivers Tyne and Wear. Title: Tyne and Wear. Well Worth Visiting In a shipyard a welder at work on a ship changes to a photograph of HMS Arc Royal on its slipway at Swan Hunters shipyards on the River Tyne. The aerial again of the Tyne and Wear coastline changes to photographs of people on the Longsands beach at Tynemouth, the lighthouse on St Mary’s Island at Whitley Bay and the Gibside Chapel mausoleum at Gibside near Gateshead. At Marsden Rock near South Shields various seabirds nesting on the offshore rock formation changes to still images of various exotic birds at the Washington Wetland Centre. A photograph of the village of Ryton near Gateshead with decorative flowerbeds around its centre changes to pedestrians and buses travelling along Northumberland Street in Newcastle passing the Eldon Square shopping centre. A man walks past The Black Gate near to The Castle in Newcastle changing to a still image of the winding engine and pit head at the Washington ‘F’ Pit Museum. Inside the Laing Art Gallery displays of decorative enamelled Beilby glass wear. A still image of an Anglo-Saxon stained-glass window inside St Paul Monastery at Jarrow changes to another of small boats on the water at Tynemouth Haven. Back in Newcastle shoppers walk around inside Eldon Square shopping centre, outside a double decker bus drive’s past. Another photograph of the Newcastle Quayside Sunday Market changes to a couple enjoying drinks at the Gosforth Park Hotel, on the nearby dancefloor couples dance cheek-to-cheek. Two men sit at a table in a country pub drinking pints of beers, on the bar a chalkboard menu. A bookshelf full of Catherine Cookson novels changes to Catherine herself sitting with her husband Tom talking about exploring the northeast having lived away from the area for many years. As she continues to speak about ‘uncovering’ the region the aerial of the Tyne and Wear coastline is followed by the sandy beach at South Shields. Catherine speaks fondly about the people of Tyne Wear, you wouldn’t find a kinder or warmer people than those living in Tyne and Wear. She finishes by saying that the areas ‘wants to be discovered’. More Catherine Cookson novels on a bookshelf change to an advertising image for ‘Catherine Cookson Country’. BBC Sports footage of Gateshead born Athlete Steve Cram competing and winning a race. Standing on a balcony overlooking a sports hall he talks how much he looks forward to coming home to Tyne and Wear when he is away competing and about how other athletes from outside the region are amazed by it when they visit, many staying to holiday for several days. As he talks BBC Sports footage of fellow athlete Sebastian Coe getting ready to race. As Steve talks about the Great North Run footage of the race itself getting underway with thousands of runners at the start of the race along the Central Motorway heading into Newcastle. Other sports facilities in the area are highlighted beginning with a still image of athletes leaping over a barrier at the Gateshead International Stadium followed by users inside a local sport centre, some splashing around in a swimming pool while in a sports hall others playing badminton. Still images of people enjoying a carousel ride and dodgem cars at the annual Hopping’s Fair taking place in the Town Moor in Newcastle. A cartoon image from the Lewis Carroll poem ‘The Walrus and the Carpenter’ which, according to the narrator, was partly inspired by a visit to a Tyne and Wear beach. At night lights illuminating the Theatre Royal on Grey Street in Newcastle, in a window at the theatre an advertising hording for the Royal Shakespeare Company whose northern home is based at the Theatre Royal. The Sunderland Empire theatre in Sunderland, inside an audience sitting in the auditorium waiting for a production to begin. A still image of two ballet dancer’s changes to a bar area at the theatre where two musicians play the Northumbrian Smallpipes. At a bagpipe museum displays of various pipes and a man looking around. Photographs of Turbinia, the world’s first steam turbine-powered steamship changes to an image of the exterior of the Museum of Science and Engineering (now the Discovery Museum) in Newcastle. Inside a lightbulb developed by Joseph Swann lights up changing to two men looking over an engineering display inside the museum. A still image of a steam locomotive is followed by one of a wagon being pulled along a wagonway. A Tyne and Wear Metro train speeds past followed by a second speeding across the Queen Elizabeth Metro Bridge. A montage of still images featuring various rural scenes around the regions five national park is followed by more images of classical painting on display in both the Shipley and Laing Art Galleries. The River Tyne featuring traffic travelling across the Tyne Bridge changes to a still image of DFDS Seaways ferry arriving in the Tyne near North Shields. At Newcastle Airport a British Airways aircraft comes into land. Inside the terminal building a man arranges a car rental at the Hertz desk, around him other passengers walk past. A still image of Concord parked at an airport gate changes to an image of St Mary’s Lighthouse with the sun low in the sky behind it. Neon signs for ‘City Vaults’ and ‘Brahms & List’ public houses changes to customers inside chatting happily over drinks. At night the Tuxedo Princess ferry and nightclub lit up underneath the Tyne Bridge changes to a woman coming down at waterslide inside Wet ‘n’ Wild water park at North Shields. As she hits the water other swimmers around her applaud. The film ends on a final aerial shot of the Tyne and Wear coastline. Title: Tyne and Wear. Well Worth Visiting End title: Sound Image Video Productions 091-284 6015