Fifteen documentary films about life in Britain made week-by-week from September to Christmas last year. 12: Dover Harbour
The Dover Harbour Board has administered the port of Dover since its charter in 1606. The port now handles eight million passengers a year and over a million tourist cars. With the freight lorries passing through Dover each year approaching half-a-million, Dover has become Europe's leading roll-on roll-off ferry port.
A year ago film cameras watched a group of men who are responsible for the smooth running of the complex shipping movements within the harbour-port control officers who authorise every movement of ferries leaving the harbour or entering it, a mooring foreman, a tugmaster and a coxswain of the patrol launch.
Photography ELMER COSSEY
Film editor GEOFFREY BOTTERILL Producer PHILIP SPEIGHT
Executive producer JAMES DEWAR