"ALL ABOARD MR BENNETT!" and "OVER THERE" - DOUBLE DISC SET

"ALL ABOARD MR BENNETT!" and "OVER THERE" - DOUBLE DISC SETIn October 1911 Arnold Bennett set sail for New York on the Lusitania. He was in his element, as the Lusitania was one of the first liners built to be like a floating hotel and he admitted that his secret ambition had always been to be the manager of a grand hotel. In his book about his visit to the USA Your United States he details the workings of the ship and life on board, and we get his impressions of New York and places he visited illustrated

Together with personal interviews and reminiscences

Then we see Spode in 1930

enjoyed by thousands of people

Film Producer WILLIAM MacQUITTY remembers watching the ship being built and being at the launch

the swimming pool

Don Smith shows us some of Captain Smith’s possessions

Around half of the visual content is archive film footage stretching back over more than a century - this is complemented by many still photographs

through recorded memories

This collection of lots of 1950s films incorporates insight from Ernest Warrillow

80 minutes

" Adrian Lyne 2021 (Hollywood film director

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