Director: Sonnie Hale
Release Date: February 1938
On 28 October 1937 the Kinematograph Weekly reported that ‘Home-going Londoners last week saw Shell-Mex House floodlit one hour earlier than usual – not for a public ceremony, but for an unobstrusive little tug which was cruising up and down the stretch of Thames immediately outside it – with a film unit aboard. It was the exterior unit of Jessie Matthews’ new film “Sailing Along,” photographing night river “atmosphere” shots for the important river sequences of the film.’ These shots are impossible to identify in the film for they appear to have been employed only in rather fuzzy back projection scenes. However the unit also filmed scenes filmed near Westminster Bridge which are easily identified.
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As Jessie Matthews' barge travels upstream a stock shot of Tower Bridge sets the scene.
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Another stock shot shows barge activity by the Houses of Parliament.
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After gaining fame on the stage Matthews visits her former workmates on a barge moored near Westminster Bridge with St. Thomas' Hospital to the left.
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A launch, which is supposed to be ferrying Roland Young to the barge, by Westminster Bridge with the Houses of Parliament in the background. The Victoria Tower is at extreme left.
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Unidentified. This is probably going to remain unidentified while it's Barry Mackay in the passenger seat.