Farewell Topsails

1937
6.4| 0h9m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 01 December 1937 Released
Producted By: Dufay Chromex
Country: United Kingdom
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One of the last voyages of a commercial sailing ship on a trip from Cornwall.

Genre

Documentary

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Director

Humphrey Jennings

Production Companies

Dufay Chromex

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Farewell Topsails Audience Reviews

Alicia I love this movie so much
EarDelightBase Waste of Money.
filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.
boblipton Before Humphrey Jennings turned out some of the best propaganda shorts for the British Post Office during the Second World War, he turned out some industrial shorts like this one. Filled with faded, elegant color and the squeezebox musics of sea chanteys, it veers between the few remaining topsail schooners in commercial operation in western Britain and the industries they serve: clay mines for adding the slick to slick paper and gypsum.Humphrey veers between the ships and their current jobs and their old routes carrying goods form the exotic South Seas, like an old man at the pub at the end of his long day's work, talking about his old job and his current one, like the unnamed accordion player who used to be a sailor. There's a lot of sentiment and pride in this short, just as would go into works like London CAN TAKE IT.