Amber Films

Documentaries and feature films from a remarkable film-making collective established in the north-east of England in 1968. Of interest to students, teachers and researchers in the fields of media studies and of UK political and social history in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

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Launch

The gradual emergence of a ship at the end of the street and its sudden disappearance was part of Wallsend’s annual cycle. When the film was shown on Channel 4 in 1982 Chris Auty described it in the Sunday Times as “a tone poem on working life with a distinctive combination of loving nostalgia and political protest”.

Still from the film "Launch"