Tuesday 25 March 2014
To help with the brief historic story of Canterbury Cathedral, I've been searching the web trying to find some archive footage of Canterbury during the 2nd world war, and also stonemasons at work during the 19 hundreds, plus any other archival footage of of what seems to be stone-masonry work.
Here's the footage that I've found:
CANTERBURY BOMBED
Description
VS of rescue workers and clean up teams in rubble left after extensive bombing of Canterbury, Kent.
VS of slightly damaged Canterbury Cathedral. Damage is mainly confined to the stained glass windows. Two good GV shots of the windows.
Useful?
The good thing with this footage is it shows the aftermath of Canterbury when it got bombed during the second world war.
EXT. CATHEDRAL AND COUNTRY SCENES
Description
Various exterior shots of large Cathedral, possibly Canterbury - showing statues and some more ancient ruins. Various country scenes including oast houses and riverside scenes - possibly in Kent.
Useful?
The good thing with this clip is it has a variety of shots from around the Cathedral, it also has people walking around on the Cathedral grounds as well.
CATHEDRAL WINDOWS
Description
Good L/Ss of Canterbury Cathedral in Kent. Various good shots of artists at work on repairing damaged stained glass windows (the commentator says that most of the glass was damaged during the Second World War) in the cathedral workshop.
Useful?
The good thing with this clip is it shows a few different wide shots of Canterbury Cathedral, but also within some of the wide shots also shows scaffolding at the top of the Cathedral Structure.
NINE YEARS AFTER - ST. PAUL'S BUILDS ANEW
Description
This footage shows various scenes of the damage caused by the German blitz in and around St.Paul's Cathedral
Useful?
Even thou this is not Canterbury Cathedral, the main reason I've posted this clip is because their is a scene in this clip that shows stonemasons from the 40's working on stone, inside of ST.Paul's workshop
SANCTUARY SAVED
Description
Various shots show restoration work taking place on the exterior and interior of Chichester Cathedral; crumbling stonework being replaced. In a workshop several stonemasons are seen at work.
Useful?
The good thing with this footage is, it shows stonemasons at work during the 60's. Even tho it's not based at Canterbury Cathedral, the footage could still be used to help drive the story of the historic account of the continual work that has been done on the Cathedral, but also the workshop resembles Canterbury Cathedral's workshop as well.
Feedback
Out of all of these clips i've found, i'll probably only end up using maybe 2 or 3 of the clips as they cost £30 per footage, however, they do also sell 2 second snippets of some of the clips as well for £20
