Chris Judge Smith - Curlys Airships

From the curly's airships site:
A quarter-of-an-hour documentary about the project was shown on H.T.V. (UK West Country TV region) on Thursday, July 10th 1997 at 11.30 PM in the arts series FRIEZE FRAME.
I made this clip several years ago. I cut everything but the musical peices and sync'ed them to the album. Made a few mistakes along the way, but the result is rather nice.
Enjoy, and if you havn't already, buy the album!

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• curlys
• airships
• curly's
• peter
• hammill
• chris
• judge
• smith
• van
• der
• graaf
• arthur
• brown

[InuitAldebaran]

Wonderful! I didn't know that one. I was looking for chris's song "1919".... What is the name of the mentioned album? Curlys Airships?

You could have mentioned Arthur Brown in the tags as well.....

Thank you for sharing this.

[litzlitz]

You're right. I just did :)

The name of the album is Curly's Airships. If you look at my other videos, you can find the unedited version of this.

[welshmagic]

@flytomars Indeed, I'm familiar with the piece, and I'm a fan of Chris Judge Smith. In isolation here on youtube though, it could seem misleading, particularly as it is popularly seen as a technical tragedy, rather than an operational and fabrication one. At the time people were quick to blame anyone but the people actually responsible for the talented individuals who died in that crash.

Certainly no disrespect to Chris Judge Smith, who put detailed effort and research into this project.

[flytomars]

@welshmagic

This is just a 10 minutes snippet from a (2 hours??) songstory. All you say above is mentioned there, every bit of it, highly recommended :)

[MiszczBetonmen]

It's great!

[welshmagic]

This song is really using the disaster to castigate some suspect Imperial British values, but the real fault lay with the badly managed comittee style engineering, and lack of quality control... Barnes Wallis R100 (the other ship) managed quite well, and flew to Canada.

[welshmagic]

It really wasn't just Lord Thompson's fault, the whole setup was suspect, the communications very poor, the original design was overweight, and the wrong dope was used, the ship in concept and streamlining was a classic, just a badly executed one.

[mchafen]

Another surprising treat !!! Good job on this !!