Metadata
WORK ID: NEFA 23364 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
UNDA VON KAPPELN: CROSSING THE ATLANTIC AND BARBADOS | 1972 | 1972-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: 16mm Colour: Colour Sound: Mute Duration: 2 mins 13 secs Genre: TV News Subject: Travel Ships |
Summary The fourth of six television news reports on the journey of the schooner Unda von Kappeln from Blyth in Northumberland to Florida in the United States of America. In this film the ship crossing the Atlantic Ocean from Grand Canarias to the island of Barbados in the Caribbean. Along the way one of the crew fries up and eats some flying fish which have jumped onto the deck. Moored off a Barbadian beach the crew of the Unda von Kappeln explore the nearby town and relax onboard and are joined by a young woman. |
Description
The fourth of six television news reports on the journey of the schooner Unda von Kappeln from Blyth in Northumberland to Florida in the United States of America. In this film the ship crossing the Atlantic Ocean from Grand Canarias to the island of Barbados in the Caribbean. Along the way one of the crew fries up and eats some flying fish which have jumped onto the deck. Moored off a Barbadian beach the crew of the Unda von Kappeln explore the nearby town and relax onboard and are joined by...
The fourth of six television news reports on the journey of the schooner Unda von Kappeln from Blyth in Northumberland to Florida in the United States of America. In this film the ship crossing the Atlantic Ocean from Grand Canarias to the island of Barbados in the Caribbean. Along the way one of the crew fries up and eats some flying fish which have jumped onto the deck. Moored off a Barbadian beach the crew of the Unda von Kappeln explore the nearby town and relax onboard and are joined by a young woman.
At dusk the Unda von Kappeln at sea crossing the Atlantic Ocean, a man sits at the wheel of the yacht smoking a cigarette. With the sun setting in the distance two members of the crew relaxing in deck.
A map of the route of the journey from Grand Canarias to the island of Barbados in the Caribbean.
The Red Ensign flies in the wind at the stern of the schooner. One of the crew collects flying fish which have landed on the deck, Dave Grey laughs chatting with the man. The man appears from below carrying a frying pan of cooked fish, he eats them on deck watched by Dave Grey.
A man drinks a car of Newcastle Brown beer from a can while standing at the wheel of the Unda von Kappeln now moored near to a Barbados beach resort. In the distance someone water skiing passing other vessels moored in the water nearby.
The anchor is released, and two men come alongside in a small dinghy. A busy marina, one moored boat with a skull-and-crossbones flag flying from its mast. Cars, bicycles, and a man riding a donkey-and-cart drive past along a busy road.
One of the crew drinks the milk from a coconut, a woman beside him is also drinking.
A young woman in a bikini swims towards and climbs aboard the Unda von Kappeln, one of the men sits on deck relaxing. She chats with someone off-camera, on the water someone sails past on a small sailing dinghy.
The film ends on a path leading to a beach and three sailing yachts moored in the water.
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