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Farewell Topsails

1937 · 9 min

A quiet, affectionate glimpse of a vanishing working life at sea, more elegiac than eventful.

Genres
Documentary
Overview
One of the last voyages of a commercial sailing ship on a trip from Cornwall.
How it feels
Warm, earnest and melancholic. Measured and needs your attention.
About
Work, nature, aging, freedom
Content
No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
Note
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How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown
Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
Places
Era
period
Audience
family
Form
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour1
Realism9
Romance0
Tension2
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight4

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Details

Genres
documentary
Directed by
Humphrey Jennings
Cinematography
J. D. Davidson
Runtime
9 min
Country
United Kingdom
Languages
English

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