From the Sea to the Land Beyond

FROM THE SEA TO THE LAND BEYOND

A film by Penny Woolcock

This fascinating and moving film by award-winning director Penny Woolcock is a lyrical portrait of Britain's coastline, created through an exquisite combination of evocative archive footage drawn from the BFI National Archive and stirring music.

Brighton-based band British Sea Power set the course for this cinematic voyage with an original score that ebbs and flows with the natural sounds of seagulls, ships and snippets of speech to create a deeply compelling and uniquely uplifting film experience.

Special features

• Making the Sea and the Land Beyond (2013, 24 mins): documentary featuring interviews with British Sea Power, Penny Woolcock, and producers Heather Croall and Mark Atkin.
• SS Saxonia in Liverpool (Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon, 1901, 3 mins): footage of passengers and crew boarding the SS Saxonia.
• Cunard Mail Steamer Lucania Leaving for America (Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon, 1901, 3 mins): early footage of the Lucania passenger liner.
• Beside the Seaside (Marion Grierson, 1935, 21 mins): Londoners flock to the south coast to enjoy themselves by the seaside during a heatwave.

Worker's Weekend (Ralph Elton, 1943, 13 mins): the workers of the Vickers Armstrong factory in Broughton assemble a Wellington Bomber in the record time of 24½ hours.Caller Herrin' (Alan Harper, 1947, 18 mins): the story of British herring fisheries from Lerwick to Lowestoft.Introductions to all the short films by Penny Woolcock.British Sea Power in Rehearsal (Ian Potts, 2012, 5 mins): footage of the band working on the film score.Film and location identification track.Fully illustrated booklet with an introductory essay by Penny Woolcock, film notes and credits.

UK / 2012 / black & white, and colour / English language / 73 minutes / Original aspect ratio 1.33:1 / DVD9 / Region 0 PAL / Dolby Digital stereo audio (320 kbps)