Geography Reference
In-Depth Information
6.5.
Regional map showing locations in amateur films.
Mitchell and Kenyon's
Liverpool as Seen from the Front of a Tram,
19 01),
forms of transport and mobility have played a prominent role in the way
Liverpool has been documented on film. A search of the City in Film da-
tabase shows 201 films featuring locations or spaces whose function is as-
sociated with transport, with a further 270 films featuring scenes involv-
ing people engaged in different forms of movement and mobility both
within and to and from the city. Transport and mobility thus emerges as
one of the key variables by which we can search and query a GIS spatial
database of Merseyside archive film data. There are films that trace jour-
neys from the suburbs into the city, films of people moving around the
city via various different modes of transport, and films about transport
(trams, the Overhead Railway, bridges, and high-speed roads).
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net total of transport and mobility films in the database is 322, which is
nearly 20 percent of the total number of films listed. It is important to
note that this does not mean that one-fifth of these films are travelogues
