In the cities of Britain we can travel in time as well as space. This film chooses the England of Hogarth, Gainsborough, Robert Adam and Captain Cook. As the camera moves across outstanding monuments of their work and relics of their achievements from Syon House to Greenwich, members of the Old Vic Company speak appropriate passages from the literature of the mid-eighteenth century. The musical score was specially composed by the late Sir Arnold Bax.
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- British Transport Films
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Alexander Shaw · Director
John Taylor · Director
Montagu Slater · Writer
Ronald Craigen · Cinematographer
Stewart McAllister · Editor
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