Your Heritage: The River Tyne 1962

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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.

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Release Date 1962-01-01
Runtime 41m
Director Tommy Tomlinson
Producers Leslie Barratt, George Adams
Writer Tony Hutchinson