I saw this recently, and wasn't 100% sure whether I'd seen it before or not.
http://www.cannystore.comNote: The link to the page with the DVD is no longer active. Best to check if the company are still selling the item.
See topic on Thames TV January 1976 Only just getting around to watching it tonight, and no I haven't! Its wonderful! Its very high quality - looking like it was recorded yesterday. The description on the website is incorrect, its not from 1967, but definitely 1975. Presented by Allan Hargreaves. Produced & Directed by Terry Yarwood.
Footage of
Launch
Captains reception
Kitchens
Interview with Captain Peter Jackson .... on the bridge
Interview with hotel manager john sawyer
A brief wonderful bit of footage from a low down porthole of the ship travelling at speed, in fact quite a few scenes where she's clearly thundering along at speed
Lots of discussion of the early 70s breakdowns, bomb scares (footage of the parachutists dropping to the ship!) etc.`
Interview with Bob Venning and Bob Lockwood the security officers and of the safety control room
Interview with Dr. John Forde in the hospital
Footage of the radio / telephone operators room
Interview with John Regan fitness instructor, who looks after the preying mantis on a palm in the Queens Room!
Dogs being walked.
John Butt, cruise director
Inteview with young Kevin Major Commis waiter who looks about 12...
Interview with Frank Walkling, Steward
Interview with Beryl Webb, shop assistant
Interview with barman Ron Stammers, in the midships bar,
Interview with Phil Horricks Ships Convenor National Union of Seamen
Interview with Alan Reyburn Hotel Director "how long can QE2 go on with the cost of fuel rising as it has been?"
Looking at the new World Trade Centers from the bridge wing
"The Queen is the largest luxury liner in the world, there will never be another like her."
