Red Funnel Ferries

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Wessex Film and Sound Archive is based in Winchester. Providing the opportunity to see and hear history, the archive contains nearly 40,000 film, video and sound recordings relating to Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, ranging from late Victorian times to the present day. It includes both amateur and professional material, local newsreels, military and maritime subjects, as well as footage produced by individuals, businesses and organisations.

Red Funnel Ferries

Wessex Film and Sound Archive
Solent, The
1969-01-01
Sound

This enjoyably nostalgic advert from 1969 starts with a shot of Red Funnel's newest hydrofoil, the Shearwater, speeding across the Solent. We cut to the interior cabin where the passengers, sitting comfortably, enjoy the view. Another shot shows the Shearwater overtaking a conventional ferry while the announcer extolls the fast journey time between Cowes and Southampton. We end with titles over a final shot of the Shearwater.

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