Original 16mm amateur film 'Vale of Neath'

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