Videos – Museum Of Communication
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Videos
The
Museum is producing a series of videos. These will be added to this page from time to time. Thanks to Andrew Burnett and Brian Anderson for contributing their expertise.
Videos currently available are listed below:
1.
Introduction to the Museum of Communication
– John Blackie presents an illustrated guide to the Museum and to the 2022 Exhibition.
2.
Volunteers Video
– An introduction to Museum activities, focussing on the work of volunteers. Produced in December 2019.
3.
The
Thorfinn
and the Hurricane
On the morning of 31 January 1953, the steamship
Earl Thorfinn
, on her round of Orkney’s North Isles, was hit by a hurricane and had to run before the wind towards Aberdeen. Captain Hamish Flett and his crew coped with mountainous seas that smashed her steering gear and conditions that destroyed other vessels that day including the Stranraer-Larne ferry
Princess Victoria
. How did the ship survive, and how has marine communication developed over the years to help in such situations? Prof. Tom Stevenson tells the story in a talk for the 2023 Orkney International Science Festival. In association with Orkney International Science Festival and Orkney Wireless Museum.
4.
My Time in the Mines 1928
– William B. Burnett looks back to the time when he started work at Gateside Colliery, Cambuslang, aged 14. This is possibly the only live description of mining in 1928 and thereabouts by someone who was there.
5.
2014 Exhibition
– Our 2014 Exhibition centred around the start of World War I, which gave rise to many advances in communications technology. The video is divided into the following sections – Life on the Home Front – Electronics – In a Field Hospital – Life in a Trench – A Morse Key. This Video was produced specially for the Orkney International Science Festival of 2014.
6.
2016 Exhibition
– A guide to the Museum’s 2016 Exhibition, ‘Wartime Advances, Peacetime Applications’, which demonstrated how technological breakthroughs achieved in the two World Wars of the 20th century formed a foundation for developments that changed everyday life in peacetime.
7.
2019 Exhibition
– A guide to the Museum’s 2019 Exhibition, ‘It was 50 Years Ago’, a varied exhibition centred round the Moon landing of July 1969.