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Murray Martin - The Album
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Murray Martin - The Album
from: Amber Films
Murray Martin - The Album
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News (2 results)
Murray Martin, 1943 - 2007
from: 16th August 2007
It's with huge sadness we announce the death of Murray Martin, founder member and key figure in the development and achievements of Amber. After a period of illness and brief hospitalisation he died
Bowes Line & Last Shift at Tyneside Cinema
from: 16th May 2007
Tyneside Cinema (currently at Gateshead Old Town Hall while its Pilgrim Street venue is being given the Heritage Lottery makeover) is screening two of Amber's 1970s Tyne documentaries on Wednesday 23
Films and Photography (10 results)
Murray Martin - The Album
from: Photography
Murray Martin was a founder member of Amber and the prime architect of the vision that continues to inform its work. These images have been selected from the many photographs that were collected and
The Pursuit of Happiness (2008)
from: Amber Films
Starting out as a film about the Coulsons, a horsey family in Craghead, County Durham, when Amber founder member and key visionary Murray Martin died in 2007, it became a documentary about a filmmaker who became part of the world he documented.
Seacoalers
from: Photography
The community of seacoal gatherers at Lynemouth, Northumberland, documented in the early 1980s, by the Ashington photographer (cousin to one of the seacoalers), who brought them to Amber after the making of the film Seacoal.
Launch (1973)
from: Amber Films
The classic shot of the launch of an oil tanker at the bottom of a street has ensured the popularity of this beautiful documentary, opening up on the epic experience of shipbuilding communities. See a video clip
specialised in hand glassmaking for industrial markets, from fine capillary tubes to large carboys.
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Maybe (1969)
from: Amber Films
A gentle documentary about the Shields Ferry on the River Tyne and its engine man, initiated while studying film at Regents Street Polytechnic by members of the group that was to become Amber.
The Filleting Machine (1981)
from: Amber Films
Rooted in his own experience of the North Shields fish quay and set on the Ridges estate, a powerful film drama written by Tom Hadaway.
Quayside (1979)
from: Amber Films
A black & white documentary film that formed part of Amber's campaign to preserve the architectural heritage of Newcastle's Quayside, then threatened by the city's plans for redevelopment.
Mai (1974)
from: Amber Films
The obsessive collector Mai Finglass was the landlady of Amber members Murray Martin and Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, when they were studying film at Regents Street Polytechnic. This beautiful documentary was the completion of a project they initiated as students.
T Dan Smith (1987)
from: Amber Films
A powerful, experimental feature film juxtaposing political drama and challenging interviews with T Dan Smith and other key figures associated with his controversial reign as Leader of Newcastle City Council in the 1960s.
Among the most interesting and socially relevant of contemporary films. New Statesman
Exhibitions 1977 to 1999
from: Side Gallery
Complete Side Gallery exhibitions from its opening in 1977 to 1994, followed by an outline of activity between 1995 and 1999.