THE SHIPBUILDERS (Full Movie)

[@ericteneyck8691]

I love these old British movies, keep them coming please!! Thank you!

[@certuv]

The best REAL Drama I have seen recently, no car chases , shoot ups, sex, etc., CGI's HD and all that just a welldon storey and a record of what life was like then. My father was in the Some during WW1 and later on joined the film studios at Ealing , which involved from film makers like Gainsbrough and produced sets with fancy plasterwork and models. The film cameras could not shoot on locations all background had to be in studio. I am coming up to 84 and remember going with my mother to local Regal cinemas seeing films like these , fancy plasterwork in some also done by my Dad. Thank you for posting this and hope for more.

[@ScottieMcClue]

Thank You 😊 🙏 feel free to check out all the movies 🎬 🎞 🎥

[@howardjolley2215]

And eighty years later, we are facing the same problems. A very good film.

[@ronaldmartin7892]

I was born in 1933. We are going to be caught with our trousers down again. Where will we recruit our fighting men from? The Royal Navy now does not have enough men to crew the escort ships for our new aircraft carrier that can't go to sea. With Britain's present and diverse population, hardly any of them would be willing to take up arms against a country where their relations may be living. I am glad I am 91 and not 19.

[@EdwardoJoyalinski]

Got to say , I prefer British cinema, the best .😊

[@RayGoettler]

I agree. My mothers family came here to Canada from Scotland.

[@gordonayres2609]

Really interesting. My friends father worked on the building of the original "Queen Mary" in the 1930s and afterwards onthrough the war on the Clyde. He and his wife lived through the Clydeside Blitz and they emigrated to New Zealand after the war.

[@Skipperpilot-d2m]

My father and his brother were welders, my grandfather was a plater all worked in the shipyards in Glasgow.....great days of British industry now long gone....

[@yomama8873]

Great movie 🤩🤩🤩💖💖

[@ScottieMcClue]

Thank You 😊 🙏

[@adamlee3772]

I wasn't aware of this film at all. Thanks for sharing. It brings a tear to my eye that all that experience, knowledge, all the sacrifice made for the UK and it was all binned in the name of capitalism in UK. Thatcher destroyed it all and that policy was continued by all governments since. You aint nothing in UK now unless you got money or land, or both. Sorry, rant over.

[@ScottieMcClue]

Money or land is up for heavy taxation so not for long

[@adamlee3772]

@ yeah. I’m no a communist but I have never known a nation so subservient to the “old money.” Time for me to head home I think.

[@marcbiff2192]

Utter nonsense commercial shipbuilding in this country was destroyed by a mixture of bad management and militant unionism also applies to the car industry.

[@goldgeologist5320]

There is always a cheaper, harder working population of workers to compete. And robots coupled with computers will soon put all workers out of a job.

[@marcbiff2192]

@@goldgeologist5320 Who will buy the products?

[@trevorwilliams6815]

Absorbing drama and definitely one with echoes to modern day shipbuilding.

[@linda1937]

Wow thank you Scottie another wonderful film.🎥 nothing like the old black and white movies of old cheers from Australia 🇦🇺 ❤

[@ScottieMcClue]

Thank You 😊 🙏 Appreciated 👏

[@behrouzfarahani9637]

I love British movies 🇬🇧 ❤

[@ScottieMcClue]

Thank You

[@behrouzfarahani9637]

@ScottieMcClue You're welcome ❤️

[@davidgladstone6588]

When I think of my home state of Connecticut, that used to be an arsenal for the war, that made our submarines, helicopters, rifles planes and ships. All that is gone, and the people have lost their pride.

[@kodebruijn4753]

great movie, real life.

[@ScottieMcClue]

Absolutely 💯

[@lorrainehamilton5051]

I'm a Bankie born and bred, watching this movie I could identify several places, most of all the actual footage of the Clydebank Blitz...saw my mum and grandparents home in the film completely destroyed in the bombing The "Holy City", Second Avenue, Bannerman Street, Montrose Street (burned out cars), Kilbowie Road hill all burning...still live in Clydebank today these scenes show the devastation. Have seen still pics many times before but this is the first time I've seen actual footage.

[@ScottieMcClue]

Amazing 👏

[@gerrycoyle9151]

My all time favourite novel.

[@robertwshephard4454]

There will always men who both build and go down to the sea in ships. The yards of Scotland and England helped save the freedom we take so lightly. GOD SAVE THE KING!

[@patrickchallis5063]

@@robertwshephard4454 you got it right, England and the commonwealth don’t get enough credit for saving the world, between 1939 and 1941 it was British , commonwealth and a few volunteers that held the line until the USA and Russians decide that this was a world war. now it’s the USA And Russians that everybody says won the war. Europe and Russia overrun, the USA the too busy to help at war with Japan. If Britain had faulted. So yes God Save the King 🇦🇺🇦🇮🇦🇽🇧🇲🇻🇬🇰🇾🇨🇰🇨🇦🇨🇰🇫🇰🇮🇸🇮🇪🇯🇲🇲🇸🇳🇿🇵🇬🇵🇳🇬🇸🇿🇦🇸🇭🇹🇨🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@TrevorLusty]

And Belfast!

[@drtonyhaworth5711]

Yes never a truer word said Scottie ……..the young don’t know what they have until it’s gone……..God save the King

[@donaldparlett7708]

Great movie, thanks for sharing.

[@ScottieMcClue]

A Pleasure 🙏 ☺️

[@Mickabbott]

Al give this a watch Scottie a served me time in 1980 in the shipyards on the Tyne 👍

[@ScottieMcClue]

Swan Hunter

[@Mickabbott]

@ clellands first then swan hunters 👍

[@24706395]

Brilliant film 🎥 Thanks 🙏

[@ScottieMcClue]

Thank You 😊 🙏

[@alancumming2336]

George Blake was the writer for another film 'Floodtide'. Like this film it is very good and according to George's son Christopher, most of the Blake family are either in it or had to help out!

[@eugenio1542]

BRILLIANT 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@arthuroldale-ki2ev]

The character in those men`s faces, My Grandpappy had a face like that , he worked hard started smoking a pipe and drinking a pint of wallop at the age of 14, never ill in his life spent 4 years at the western front, dropped dead one month before his 100th birthday , pension book in one hand and his pipe in the other, We now live in very sad times !

[@peterjames9610]

@@arthuroldale-ki2ev your grandpa pay came from the hero era, I doubt a old bloke like me will see people like that again.

[@lyndalynda5768]

The Shipbuilders by George Blake published in Edinburgh 1935 an excellent read authentic and moving the film produced superb archive material and was a credit to the book.

[@ScottieMcClue]

Absolutely 💯 Thank You 😊 🙏

[@frankholden237]

At around the 23 minute mark the ship owner suggests that the builders should help get rid of his old steamers if they want him to buy new ships. That alludes to the 'Scrap and Build' program aka The British Shipping (Assistance) Act, 1935. Simply put that allowed owners to trade in old ships for scrapping if they ordered new in British yards. Good movie, thanks for posting.

[@ScottieMcClue]

Wonderful Idea because Ships get recycled and it was kept in house thank you for your input 😊

[@alexbain9762]

Merci 1000, from the sunny south of France.

[@abundantYOUniverse]

And Todays Topic Is SHIPPING! haha Was a blast talking with you Scotty! Thanks for the movie yippee!

[@ScottieMcClue]

BIG STYLE

[@kohl57]

Wonderful stuff. The ship shown being launched at the beginning is R.M.S. CANTON (1938) built at Linthouse, Glasgow by Alex. Stephen & Sons for P&O's UK-Hong Kong mailship route.

[@ScottieMcClue]

Fabulous thank you 😊 🙏

[@JamesDickson-vs5of]

Not that I'm any kind of expert, but they say the chain maker's were the toughest of them all, one father and son outfit could make 12 yards of chain in one shift 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✌️

[@redtobertshateshandles]

There's a photo of chain makers holding short sledge hammers in one hand. They're the original muscle men.

[@shanewallace1126]

Oh wow, great film! Watched it all, read all comments, thanks to all👍. Same-ish social concern as 'Grapes of Wrath' but with extra British. Excellent pictural quality, take colouring well...be pretty much a modern film visually. 🙃

[@ScottieMcClue]

Absolutely 💯

[@davidleonard1813]

In a way it's similar plot to that Neville Schute novel, that I can't recall the name of. But similar and depression era. If you track it down and it doesn't squeeze a tear out of you, you ain't human.

[@bboucharde]

Neville Schute = *TOP MAN*

[@alancumming2336]

@@bboucharde Is that Nevile Shute's German cousin?

[@bboucharde]

@@alancumming2336 Alan, Sorry, I meant Nevil Shute.

[@sarran1955]

22:15 onwards, what a strong parallel is drawn with 'Ruined city' by Nevil Shute... Cordialement,

[@ScottieMcClue]

It would be much later The Shipbuilders was written in 1935

[@larrywhited3070]

The other side of this same coin was the Great Depression in the U.S. This movie is not rooted in fiction, but in general historical facts. When the markets collapsed in 1929 this helped set the stage for lost jobs and lost hope. History will repeat itself. With the U.S. being nearly 30 TRILLION dollars in debt and far too many people losing their incentive to work but instead wanting to rely on the government to care for them we are at the edge of a great abyss. It's a long ways down. Can't happen here? Others in the past have thought and said that.

[@ScottieMcClue]

Who is the 30T owed to ?

[@larrywhited3070]

@@ScottieMcClue The answer is too complicated for a reasonably accurate reply. The government owes it to itself in various ways and is "borrowed" out of thin air, while some is actually owed to foreign nations. Many links are available to address this. A handy one is entitled: "Who Owns the U.S. National Debt?" In short, the debt is "funny money", and in essence it is money that does not really exist and is only promised. And we know what usually happens to promises made by politicians.

[@Offshoreorganbuilder]

You could not make a film like this today - certainly not in Starmer's multicultural Britain.

[@admiralcraddock464]

He`s only been in power a few months for God`s sake.

[@Offshoreorganbuilder]

@@admiralcraddock464 Ha! And just look at what has happened!!

[@johnminshell7595]

Great movie , have we learned any thing . Today could can hardly build a rowing boat We Don’t Make Steel and we can’t Burn Coal China has over 3000 Coal Fired Power Stations , Germany has 1300 Power Stations .84 are Coal Fired

[@phubblewubbphubblewubb]

Thatcher killed our shipbuilding industry along with British steel and British Coal Mining.

[@ScottieMcClue]

Correct

[@peterbamforth6453]

Not a bad little film never heard of upper management visiting lowly workers in their hovells before.A bit like take the high road based in govan.

[@ScottieMcClue]

The Scottish Shipbuilders Had Huge Social Consciences and did much for their employees including housing and the environment education and churches

[@PrinceMashao-ed3fe]

first

[@doctorshawzy6477]

farewell clyde

[@TheLucanicLord]

Totally riveting! What's the music at 53:19?

[@RichardGraham-l6f]

Why has this film never been shown on British television?

[@ScottieMcClue]

Perhaps they don't know about it remember I've been 40 years TV and Radio

[@tomcarr1358]

Because the picture quality is poor and the print would require re-processing to achieve at least some enhancement.

[@EdwardoJoyalinski]

We could do with these ship builders nowadays,

[@ScottieMcClue]

Absolutely 💯

[@peterkavanagh64]

Yes to normality

[@pressureworks]

Moire Lister, cast member, 1st Season of Hancocks Half Hour.

[@johnmay23]

Afte WW2 British ships still carried 45% of world trade . Germany, Japan ,and their shipyards ,were in complete ruin Korea and China had no ship buidling industry Now multi capacity containers ships are built mainly in their shipyards while Italain yards build the worlds crusie ships Bitish shiipyards are almost non-existant and British flag ships are rare . What happened ??? j may vancouver - canada

[@ScottieMcClue]

Margaret Thatcher happened

[@johnforsyth296]

And now this historic shipbuilding nation can’t build 2 ferries. Painted windows, pretend bulbous bow, all under the watch of a pretend government.

[@ScottieMcClue]

the fault of successive Westminster government's for killing off the Scottish Industries. The ferries are launched bulbous bows are in vogue and have been since the 1960s and the painted windows have gone so big credit to Scotland and The Scottish Government 😀

[@johnforsyth296]

And how late are they? Even the quayside’s they are to sail from don’t have the facilities to handle them. Take a peek from under your tartan blanket at the real world.

[@Mrbobinge]

So well told but it all sounds like a rip-off of Forrester's Hornblower. His Horatio navy stories took me to sea as virtual observer aged 13. Ha hem. At 16, decided to join the RN. At the bottom to begin with (as electrician), just as Horny did. And that was happily enjoyed for 11years. Get some sea-time lad, would say the old salts. Ha, my first of five voyages to/from the colonies was at aged 2. When they were landlubber teens.

[@ScottieMcClue]

Beautifully written in 1935 by Scottish Author George Blake so ZERO Hornblower although your own Service has shades of Hornblower not sure about the Electrician bit👏