VIDEO: Kennet and Avon Canal Restoration 1971

This extract from a longer thirty minute film produced in 1971 by the Bristol Film and Video Society, shows the Kennet and Avon Canal at Bath, Devizes and Wootton Rivers during the height of its restoration. The filmmakers, despite being amateurs, deployed docu-drama techniques, as well as graphics and sound effects to help tell the story of the canal’s progression.

Archive film from the Bristol Film and Video Society collection.

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This copy is intended for private, domestic use and for educational purposes.

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The film has been digitised as part of a three year programme in association with Dorset History Centre, to preserve and make available for wider public viewing, the Windrose Rural Media Trust Archive.

The project has been funded, in the main, by the Heritage Lottery Fund, together with other generous contributions.

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