Preserving the Vasa | Shell Historical Film Archive
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- In 1628, a Swedish warship met a tragic end during its maiden voyage, sinking in minutes. This film uncovers the intriguing challenges of preserving the Vasa (sometimes spelled 'Wasa'), a sunken treasure lost for over three centuries. In 1956, pieces of blackened oak sparked the rediscovery, leading to a complex salvage operation that unfolded over five years and involved the delicate preservation of a ship's timeworn secrets.
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Shell’s surprising and captivating Historic Film Archive dates from 1934 and covers a rich mix of topics from technology, science and engineering to craftsmanship, motorsport and travelogue.
The Shell Film Unit, responsible for the content, was a highly celebrated part of Britain’s Documentary Movement. Key figures from that movement were involved, including: Jack Beddington, Edgar Anstey, Arthur Elton, John Grierson, Kay Mander, Stuart Legg and Douglas Gordon.
Its films were wide reaching, often screened in cinemas and through the non-theatric film distribution circuit, which brought film to educational establishments and organisations across the UK. While many films covered technological themes related to Shell’s activities, others were entirely unrelated and served purely to educate the general public.
As Shell innovated in technologies that would provide oil and gas products for the world, the Shell Film Unit also innovated in the technological advancement of film, incorporating graphics and different forms of animation as early as the 1930s.
During WW2 the Shell Film Unit was co-opted into war effort, making films for the Ministry of Information’s film division. Its prowess in technological documentary suited the MoI’s need for technical training films.
While the name and the medium has changed many times over the years, the documentary tradition lives on at Shell. Its contemporary film team is part of Shell’s multi-disciplinary in-house agency, Creative Solutions. It continues making award-winning factual content that informs and educates the public, now usually released on social media platforms.
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She is an incredible ship. Thanks for sharing, Shell.
Wonderful. It is a revelation of what a small population can do. Commit itself to action which a large population is unable to do because of a seemingly myriad of conflicting nonsense. We are good at that. Lovely video. Many thanks.
I have seen this reconstruction of the Vasa last year in Stockholm. It is a fantastic museum and the ship is an unbelievably beautiful work of craftsmanship. It is also a huge ship until you see it in real life do you realize how big these ships really were. Well worth a visit.
Museum and monument of the failure
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A great short documentary. What an amazing ship. I hope you all get the chance to visit the wonderful museum. And, after this film was made - it was sprayed for 20 years - day and night.
Imagine the divers view when he saw the Vasa for the first time. Must have been fantastic, magically and scary at the same time.
It's amazing !!!
Its amazing to see how far the UK has come in technology for the first time. And probably the first to raise any ship.
I wish people would take so much interest in me
4:51 looks like its holding its breath 😂
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Softening bread and cake, with polyethylene glycol?
That’s what I thought too. Think I’ll pass.
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Awful music 👎🏼
I love it 😂
Sounds like my childhood; organ music was popular then too. Small window of time that will never reoccur.
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