People in Glass Houses (1967)

Here's a super-geeky documentary made in 1967 about the design of glass curtain walled office blocks and overheating. Unfortunately mutilated with a huge amount of watermarking, the film is still watchable and has some great interviews and footage.

It's all set in T. Dan Smith's Newcastle and the surrounding North-East, and so we see Norgas House in Killingworth by Ryder and Yates (here's more on the building by the Something Concrete and Modern project). Not only do we get to see inside and meet the operators of the noisy, clunking great IBM machines, we also get an interview with Gordon Ryder.

Then there's a section on the Physics block of Newcastle University by Basil Spence, and finally one on the Civic Centre in Newcastle, and an interview with its designer George Kenyon.