The Tide of Traffic

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The Tide of Traffic
The Tide of Traffic film Opening titles (1972).jpg
Directed by Derek Williams
Produced byHumphrey Swingler
CinematographyMaurice Picot
Edited byMichael Crane
Music by Humphrey Searle
Production
companies
Distributed by BP
Release date
  • 1 January 1972 (1972-01-01)
Running time
27 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Tide of Traffic is a 1972 British short documentary film directed and written by Derek Williams. [1] [2] It was made by British Petroleum as a contribution to the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm. Filming locations were Venice, Rome, London and New York. [3]

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Reception

She magazine wrote: "This BP film (which is a kind of sequel to their award-winning Shadow of Progress) is one of the best I have seen and should collect equally prestigious prizes. It presents every facet of the autocratic rule of the motor vehicle. Motoring, says the film, is at once a means to reach places of recreation and a recreation in itself. The car offers a kind of freedom and it is the dream of most families to own one a better one, or a second one. Moving, the vehicle is less trouble than when it stops: the parked car demands 30 times the space of a standing person! All this and much more is shown in this wide-ranging and intelligent film." [4]

Accolades

The film receved a Venice Golden Mercury award, [5] and was nominated for the 1973 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. [6]

References

  1. ↑ "The Tide of Traffic". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 7 October 2025.
  2. ↑ Russell, Patrick. "Shadow of Progress, The (1970)". British Film Institute scrennonline. Retrieved 7 October 2025.
  3. ↑ "The Tide of Traffic". BP Video Library. Retrieved 7 October 2025.
  4. ↑ Myer, Kenneth (December 1972). "The Tide of Traffic". She : 42 – via ProQuest.
  5. ↑ "Derek Williams". The British Entertainment History Project. 1 May 2000. Retrieved 7 October 2025.
  6. ↑ "The 45th Academy Awards (1973) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
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