

8 minutes of rivets, steel, and industrial poetry from 1950 Britain.
Tyneside shipyard Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson turns out a beast of a tanker for the Argentine Navy.
Cinematography
Crisp black-and-white industrial beauty, every rivet gleams.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
British shipbuilding employed 200,000 people in 1950; by 1980 that number collapsed by 90%. This is essentially a tombstone with welding sparks.
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