Short film
Link Span
1956 · 25 min
A calm, matter-of-fact travelogue gliding through a day of ferries, freight and passengers bustling between two coasts.
- Directed by
- Michael Clarke
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Michael Goodliffe
- Overview
- Twenty-four hours in the story of the British Railways Channel ferryboats, the 'link spans' directly joining the roads and railways of Britain with those of France and all the Continent. The Lord Warden laden with an assortment of road vehicles from Dover, and the Night Ferry from Newhaven carrying passengers bound for Paris, Vienna or Rome are two of the ferries illustrated in this film; and freight is not forgotten.
- How it feels
- Earnest, warm and light. Measured and easy to follow.
- About
- Work, exploration, survival
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Michael Clarke
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Michael Goodliffe
