Your Heritage The River Tyne
DirectorTommy Tomlinson
WriterTony Hutchinson
41 minDocumentary
Plot
As the Cold War bristles with menace in the 60s the youth at Kielder Workmans Club celebrate free time with an American dance called the Twist But its the Faustian pact with industry this brilliant travelogue focuses on first as it maps the path of the River Tyne The sounds of heavy machinery and graft pitch us into Newcastles shipyards and collieries whilst drugs spin off a machine called Bliss in Winthrop Laboratories productionslick war against pain
