Amber, 1973, 10 min

‘A tone poem on working life with a distinctive combination of loving nostalgia and political protest.’ Sunday Times

Capturing the sense of anticipation in the days before the launch of the oil tanker World Unicorn - and the breathtaking scale of an event that was simply part of the annual cycle of life at the end of a terraced street in Wallsend - this short film has remained one of Amber’s most popular works.

Not that we ever drop names at Amber, of course, but Sting was in the other day watching this: he was brought up in the street, down which the camera records the launch (although he'd left by 1973).