Iain Hamilton

Birth : 1922-06-06, Glasgow, Scotland

Death : 2000-07-21

History

Iain Ellis Hamilton was a Scottish composer. Born in Glasgow, he initially trained as an apprentice engineer in London, working as an engineer for seven years. He received a scholarship in 1947 to study at the Royal College of Music and subsequently worked as a composer. He was a professor at Duke University for twenty years, and returned to London.

Movies

Seawards the Great Ships
Seawards the Great Ships
Music
Documentary about shipbuilding on the Clyde. In 1960, Glasgow and other towns and ports on the River Clyde, on the west coast of Scotland, were still one of the world's great centres of shipbuilding. The film gives an idea of the business of building a ship - the largest moving thing made by man - from the naval architects who design her to the workmen, the shipbuilders in the yard, through to a ship's launching.