Giants of Steam

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 40 min
  • Premiere: 1963. May 21.

The epic of the earliest days of Britain's railways and the men who built them. It concentrates on the achievements of George and Robert Stephenson and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who built the first railway lines in the world in this country. Portraits, paintings, engraving and prints are used together with live shooting to evoke the atmosphere and illustrate the construction of the railways and the locomotives which ran on them.

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Crew

Alex Pierce

Cinematography

Ronald Craigen

Cinematography

Directing

John Read

Director

Editing

Roy Fry

Editor

Sound

Crew

Alex Pierce

Cinematography

Ronald Craigen

Cinematography

Directing

John Read

Director

Editing

Roy Fry

Editor

Sound