Digital Betacam of rushes for BBC's Timewatch: Rocket and its rivals, tape 10 of 34

Tape 10 of 34, Timewatch, Rocket, Rainhill trials. Content: NMSI, Manchester, stationary steam engine; Novelty original; world's first computer and present-day laptop; Llangollen, Saturday, Interview with Richard Lamb; site establishers, polishing nameplates; Robert Sjoo arrives; Final boiler inspection of Novelty with Bob Garnett

Digital videotapes of rushes made by BBC Wales during the making of the programme: 'Timewatch: Rocket and its Rivals', the final programme was broadcast on BBC 2 on 24 January 2003. Most of the rushes were filmed at the National Railway Museum, York.

The purpose of this BBC programme was to recreate the Rainhills trials, with replicas of the locomotives that took part at the time: Rocket, Sans Pareil and Novelty. 173 years after the original trials, a television crew filmed all the preparation, including work and repairs done on the replicas. A team from the National Railway Museum worked on Rocket and Sans Pareil replicas, working engines in the Science Museum Group permanent collection (Rocket replica 1979-7002, Sans Pareil replica 2009-7054). Novelty replica came from the Swedish Railway Museum.

Details

Category:
Moving Images
Object Number:
2023-169
Materials:
plastic (unidentified), polyester and magnetic layer
Measurements:
overall: 160 mm x 60 mm x 30 mm,
type:
digital betacam