The Cam Camwell collection is an exciting and nostalgic series of archive films presented in dvd format from the camera of one of the best-known cine cameramen of the last century. Cam Camwell’s work is well known in his home area of the Midlands, and extracts from his material have appeared regularly in ‘RAILSCENE’, the railway video magazine (now available on dvd).
However, all the material in these programmes has not previously appeared on dvds and covers virtually every part of the British Isles, including private railways, in the early 1950s.
During the 1950s Cam Camwell was the Secretary of the Midland Area of the Stephenson Locomotive Society and was instrumental in organising many railtours, and was thus in a unique position to film, on his 16mm cine camera, many long-vanished scenes.
All material was filmed on 16mm film telecined to 3/4′ BVU and edited to 1′.
