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Farewell Topsails
One of the last voyages of a commercial sailing ship on a trip from Cornwall.
| Release : | 1937 |
| Rating : | 6.4 |
| Studio : | Dufay Chromex, |
| Crew : | Director of Photography, Assistant Director, |
| Cast : | |
| Genre : | Documentary |
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Absolutely Brilliant!
This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.
A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.
This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
Before Humphrey Jennings turned out some of the best propaganda shorts for the British Post Office during the Second World War, he turned out some industrial shorts like this one. Filled with faded, elegant color and the squeezebox musics of sea chanteys, it veers between the few remaining topsail schooners in commercial operation in western Britain and the industries they serve: clay mines for adding the slick to slick paper and gypsum.Humphrey veers between the ships and their current jobs and their old routes carrying goods form the exotic South Seas, like an old man at the pub at the end of his long day's work, talking about his old job and his current one, like the unnamed accordion player who used to be a sailor. There's a lot of sentiment and pride in this short, just as would go into works like London CAN TAKE IT.
