Original 16mm amateur film 'Vale of Neath'
- Made:
- 1986-11-04 in Wales
400 feet cardboard case, colour, silent footage. Window views filmed on board of moving train ; shots of tunnel, bridges (passing on top, filming below), landscape ; locomotive 6660 passing ; Trelewis Halt station ; shots taken from roof of locomotive, on single line viaduct, filming down toward the town under viaduct ; locomotive 4157 stationnary in station ; 6000 (King George V) passing filmed from lineside, other people watching ; 6000 passing through landscape
These reels of original amateur film footage were shot by William Herbert Glyn Thomas who was a Travel Agent, born in 1916, who passed away in May 1992. The films relate mainly to two topics: railways and travel abroad and were taken between mid-1960s and early 1970s, though not all railway footage, they document travel in all its forms and demonsrate the link between railways and leisure travel.
Details
- Category:
- Moving Images
- Object Number:
- 2017-7124/5
- Materials:
- acetate, plastic (unidentified), metal (unknown) and cardboard
- type:
- 16 mm film
- credit:
- Mr Glyn Thomas