Movie Details
Original Language:English
Production Companies:BBC, British Transport Films
Cast & Crew
A
Alex Pierce
Cinematography
R
Ronald Craigen
Cinematography
R
Roy Fry
Editor
R
Ron Grainer
Music
Giants of Steam
StarringJohn Slater
DirectorJohn Read
40 minDocumentary
Plot
The epic of the earliest days of Britain's railways and the men who built them. It concentrates on the achievements of George and Robert Stephenson and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who built the first railway lines in the world in this country. Portraits, paintings, engraving and prints are used together with live shooting to evoke the atmosphere and illustrate the construction of the railways and the locomotives which ran on them.