Amber, 1969, 10 mins The film about the Shields Ferry that started it all off! A gentle, reflective documentary about a gentle, reflective man and a river crossing as brief but evocative as the film itself, Maybe was the student film by Amber founder members Murray Martin and Graham Denman around which the early collective began to develop its approach.
Maybe has now been digitally re-mastered with Screen Heritage UK funding and is being given a DVD release as part of Tyne Documentaries 2. The DVD also includes High Row (1973), about a drift mine near Alston, Six to Midnight (1974), about Newcastle’s Grainger Market and the city’s redevelopment, Quayside (1979), which was part of Amber’s campaign to save Newcastle’s historic river frontage and bonus film Wallsend 72 (1972) which features the Swan Hunter brass band and juvenile jazz band the Rising Sun Legionnaires.
Tyne Documentaries 2, along with DVDs of Byker (1983) / Today I’m With You (2010) and of The Scar (1997) will be available from Amber’s online shop from 15th November. The Tyne Documentaries (Launch, Bowes Line, Last Shift and Glassworks) and a number of other DVDs are already available. Visit the Online Shop
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