"Sheffield - City on the Move" is retro-futurist civic optimism turned surreal by time. This 1970s promotional film, meant to attract investment, showcases Sheffield's industry, infrastructure, and spirit. It tries so hard to be hopeful that it circles into something oddly tragic. The narration plays like a speech rehearsed in a cracked mirror - charming, bleak, and unintentionally poetic.
It longs to shed the destruction and decline left by the war, but the effort itself feels ghosted by loss. In trying to celebrate the future, it quietly mourns the past-and fails at both.
It can be found free on Youtube.