Video 1
The pre-title sequence for Coventry Cathedral: Building for a New Britain (2021).
Figure 1
Lens change ‘glitch’ included from newsreel rushes of Princess Elizabeth visiting Coventry, May 1948.
Figure 2
Spatial montage screen shot showing, left, BBC television camera and operator.
Figure 3
Local filmmaker Barnard Reyner glimpsed between father and bride.
Figure 4
Crowds watching the installation of the cathedral spire by helicopter.
Figure 5
Crowds outside the cathedral on Consecration Day.
Figure 6
The briefest of glimpses of Conservative housing minister David Eccles.
Figure 7
Nazi newsreel shot above Coventry with visible evidence of damage to the film stock.
Figure 8
Construction worker and musician, illustrating the impact of immigration on Coventry.
Figure 9
Title card at the endpoint of an animated ‘construction’ sequence.
Video 2
Installing the new spire of Coventry Cathedral by helicopter, 26 April 1962.