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Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan: Gateway to the North, Music Video, 2020

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dsl SX

2021-07-28 02:42

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It looks as if there was a Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan in the 1970s which generated a public information film. In 2020, Gordon Chapman-Fox released a concept album “Interim Report, March 1979” under the name of Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan as his "hymn and homage to the brutalist beauty of Cheshire’s designated new towns of Warrington and Runcorn."
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with the lead track "Gateway To The North" given this video accompaniment, presumably from the 70s promo film (which I haven't been able to find in any original form).

Now he's due to release a second instalment in a couple of months
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called "People and Industry", so this could be the Next Big Thing. I started wondering if this was all a big spoof, but it all seems genuine despite its eccentricity, and the music is very pleasant.

Because there is a genuine period film behind the project, some less common captures given pages. Others listed here as backgrounds. Not convinced it's 1979 footage - nothing seems newer than about 1973.

Rejects:

- Ford D-Series tipper, early plain Cortina Mk3
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- Renault 16, Austin 1300 Mk3 (with Viva HA beyond and another 1300 Mk3 in Black Tulip behind the skip)
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Sunbar UK

2021-07-28 12:56

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O1l7iXrACg
Movie footage probably taken from "Runcorn New Town - The Leaving Of Liverpool" 1974 mini documentary?
But who produced it is not shown.

dsl SX

2021-07-28 17:30

^ Well found. All the video footage is taken from that film.

Sunbar UK

2021-07-28 19:54

The 'documentary' looks to be a compilation of three different styles and the Liverpool section which introduces it seems overly long but it all looks right for the period.

Sunbar UK

2021-07-29 12:50

The original source documentary here...
Urba 2,000 ep.7 British New Towns (1974)
The National Film Board of Canada.
http://onf-nfb.gc.ca/en/our-collection/?idfilm=11651
The full 86 minute documentary included the 36 minute Runcorn section.

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