Songs from the Shipyards
for the Space

Credits

• Commissioned and produced by: Tyneside Cinema
• Creative Consultant: Richard Fenwick
• Producer: Holli McGuire
• Music by: The Unthanks
• Digital Design and Build: El Mysterioso
• Content Manager: Hannah McParlin
• Researchers: Ian Whitehead & Sarah Younas
• Copywriter: Carlton Reeve
• BBC Mentor: Francesca Kemp

Performance Films for Black Trade, A Great Northern River and Shipbuilding

• Directed and edited by: George Lucas
• Produced by: Mikey Levelle at Shameless

Visuals for Fairfield Crane and Monkey Dung Man

• Directed & Edited by: Richard Fenwick
• Timelapse Photography by: Jonathan Maxfield at Fourth Dimension
• Art Direction by: LodayGonpo
• Camera and Lighting by: Hannah McParlin

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Archive Material

Archive material arranged and edited by Richard Fenwick from the following sources

News Footage

• BBC / BBC North
• ITN Source

Film Footage

• Employees Leaving Messrs Vickers and Maxims in Barrow - 1901, Mitchell & Kenyon, BFI National Archive
• Workforce of Scott & Co Shipyard - 1901, Mitchell & Kenyon, BFI National Archive
• SS Olympic - 1910, BFI National Archive
• Visit of Their Majesties the King and Queen to the northeast coast shipbuilding and engineering works on the Wear. – 1917, BFI National Archive
• Building a Liner - 1938, BFI National Archive
• Tyneside - 1941, BFI National Archive
• A River Speaks - 1947, North East Film Archive
• Review of 1960 – 1960, BBC
• Port of Tyne - 1965, Turners Films, North East Film Archive
• Launch of the MV Clerk-Maxwell - 1966, Turners Films, North East Film Archive
• Focus: Big Tankers (Launch of the Esso Northumbria) – 1969, Tyne Tees Television, part of the ITV Network (North East Film Archive)
• The Big ‘Un - 1969, BBC
• Shipping in the 70s - 1969, Tyne Tees Television, part of the ITV Network
• Aerial Footage of ESSO Northumbria – 1969, BBC
• Launch of M.S. Sir John Hunter – 1973, North East Film Archive
• Launch - 1974, Amber Films, www.amber-online.com
• North - 1982, Trade Films
• A Moment to Talk – 1983, BBC
• The Price of Ships - 1984, Trade Films
• Jim Murray - 1984, Trade Films
• We Make Ships – 1987, North East Film Archive (A Siren Film and Video Co-op Production for Channel 4)
• Swan Hunters - 2001, Angela Hughes

Photography

• Haverton Hill - 1972, Keith Pattison
• Additional photography – Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums

Unthanks Soundtrack

Soundtrack composed from the following source material

• Taking on Men – Jez Lowe
• Black Trade – Jez Lowe
• Til the Spring Comes – John Tams
• Fairfield Crane - Archie Fischer
• Big Steamers – Rudyard Kipling/Peter Bellamy
• Great Northern River – Graeme Miles
• All in a Day – Alex Glasgow
• Monkey Dungmen– Jez Lowe
• The Tyne Slides By – Alex Glasgow
• Looking Back – Johnny Handle
• Caps and Cards – Jez Lowe
• Shipbuilding – Elvis Costello/Clive Langer
• Down the Yard – Barry Temple
• Taking on Men II – Jez Lowe
• Only Remembered – John Tams
• Song featured in the film ‘The Big ‘Un’– Alex Glasgow, performed by Alex Glasgow
• The Romantic Tyne - Music written by Adrian McNally. Arranged by McNally, Price, Keegan. Prose spoken by George Unthank, adopted from poetry by Graeme Miles