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Giants of Steam (1963)
Directed by John Read
Documentary · 40m
The epic of the earliest days of Britain's railways and the men who built them. It concentrates on the achievements of George and Robert Stephenson and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who built the first railway lines in the world in this country. Portraits, paintings, engraving and prints are used together with live shooting to evoke the atmosphere and illustrate the construction of the railways and the locomotives which ran on them.
Cast
John Slater
Crew
- Director
- John Read
- Director of Photography
- Ronald Craigen
- Editor
- Roy Fry
Details
- Release date
- 1963-05-21
- Runtime
- 40m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- BBC, British Transport Films