Rare cine film footage shows life in Sunderland's shipyards in 1965

A 60-year-old film from the Sunderland shipyards can today be shared with Echo followers,

It shows students learning the skills of the industry including engineering and welding - and it comes to us courtesy of the North East Film Archive.

Original footage from 1965

The excerpt is from an film which is believed to have been originally recorded by a former student of Bede College, Durham in 1965.

It shows school children learning about the shipbuilding industry and working in the engineering and carpentry workshop.

Scenes from the Sunderland shipyards are mixed with views from the classroom.

It is yet another fascinating insight from the North East Film Archive library which has a vast collection of footage.

70,000 films in its collection

Its team has painstakingly taken on the task of preserving, cataloguing, and digitising these vital collections of reminders of our past.

NEFA officials have previously shared clips of fun at the Seaburn fairground in 1966 and Brian Clough in one of his last matches for Sunderland before the injury which put paid to his playing career.

NEFA has a huge catalogue of over 70,000 items of original film, video tape, and born-digital material. Its team painstakingly preserves, catalogues, and digitises these vital collections of reminders of our past.

NEFA operates the The Yorkshire Film Archive in York, and the North East Film Archive, in Middlesbrough.

If you have cine film of Sunderland and County Durham in the past, we would love to hear from you. Email [email protected] and tell us more.