Category: Snugberth Cinema
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Cornwall on film in 1916
This (now in colour!) film shows maritime Cornwall at the height of the first world war. Clips show Looe, Polperro, St Ives (with artist!) and children climbing over the wreck of a boat. Despite conscription… […]
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Charlotte – A Wooden Boat Story
2011, Dir Jeffrey Kusuma-Hinte, 96 mins This film charts the life of the Gannon & Benjamin boatyard on Martha’s Vineyard – the island off Massachusetts, where they restore wooden boats and have built a series… […]
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Nights at Brest
Late at night at the Brest festival… a short photo essay by Nigel Pert to the music of Alan Špiljak (Stars above – from the Silverlight album) The photos are from the bilingual book… […]
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Red Sails film Directed by Michael Maloney
The rebuilt Thames Sailing Barge Cambria features heavily in this film, which is all about the so-called TSBs – their role in trade which has now developed into charter mainly around the waters of the… […]
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Buster Keaton’s The Boat
1921, Dir Buster Keaton, Edward Cline, B&W silent, 27 mins At 27 minutes this is a very short filmt but don’t see that as a setback. It’s a hilarious story about how not to launch… […]
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Bill King on Galway Blazer, 1968 Golden Globe Race
An elegiac film on Cdr Bill King RN who entered the 1968 Golden Globe race in his cold-moulded two masted junk rig schooner Galway Blazer II. With no shrouds or guard rails it looks a… […]
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Arthur, Nancy… and me
Peter Willis talks to Dan Houston (Classic Sailor) about his lifelong passion for the children’s author Arthur Ransome and his 1931 Hillyard cutterNancy Blackett. Peter was recognised in the 2019 Royal Yachting Association Volunteer Awards… […]
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Maurice Bailey talks about his 117days adrift
This is a lovely short film, by Alvaro Cerezo, featuring the late Maurice Bailey who, with his wife Maralyn spent 117 days adrift in a liferaft in the Pacific Ocean in 1972. The couple sold… […]
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The Snow Goose
1971 Dir Patrick Garland 50 minutes Based on a short story and then the novel by Paul Gallico, in 1941, this classic film is a gentle, if sentimental, love story of a reclusive crippled artist… […]