North Sea (1938)
- Directed by
- Harry Watt
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 32 min
- Rating
- 6.0 of 10 from 8 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A group of fishermen work on a trawler in the North Sea. The film follows their daily routines and how they handle an emergency at sea.
everydaynaturalisticgroundedbusyworkmanlikestraightforwardunderstated
What happens
North Sea is a 1938 documentary film produced by Alberto Cavalcanti under the auspices of the GPO Film Unit and directed by Harry Watt. The film makers challenged the conventions of documentary, casting non-professionals, as they had in their previous film The Saving of Bill Blewitt. In the same style, North Sea employed minimal narration and relies on action, dialogue and characterisation to tell its story. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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The Saving of Bill Blewitt (1936)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.