Overview
As the Cold War bristles with menace in the 60s, the youth at Kielder Workman’s Club celebrate free time with an American dance called the ‘Twist’. But it’s the Faustian pact with industry this brilliant travelogue focuses on first as it maps the path of the River Tyne. The sounds of heavy machinery and graft pitch us into Newcastle’s shipyards and collieries, whilst drugs spin off a machine called Bliss in Winthrop Laboratories’ production-slick war against pain.
Production
Tyne Tees Television
Directors & Crew
Tommy Tomlinson
Director
Leslie Barratt
Producer
George Adams
Producer
Tony Hutchinson
Writer
More Like This
The Open Road
1926
North Korea from the Train Window
2007
The Street Performers
2015
On the Roof of the World: The Journey of H.R.H. the Duke of Abruzzo to Karakorum
1910
Motoring in Mexico
1943
20,000 Employees Entering Lord Armstrong's Elswick Works, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
1900
Facing Down Under: A Backpackers Documentary
2022
Get Liberated - Get Naked
2003
Sitka and Juneau: 'A Tale of Two Cities'
1940
Old New Mexico
1940