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MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Gatwick Airport Ready. DESCRIPTION: Gatwick, Britain’s latest airport, nears completion. It has wonderful transport facilities, and it is the first airport in the world with road,...
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Fog - Bound. DESCRIPTION: It was the worst blanket of fog this season, so far. Our cameraman rose above it, while earth-bound Britons were struggling manfully to get to their...
NoS Summary - the opening of Calverton Colliery and a new branch railway. BFI synopsis: The colliery is the first big new colliery to come into production since nationalisation; the new railway (built for...
BFI synopsis: the rail marshalling yard at Toton, Derby. NCB Commentary - With the winter fuel demand at its peak, this Midland colliery, like all the other pits, is turning out laden coal wagons as fast as...
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Backroom Boys. DESCRIPTION: Movietone looks at British Research - British Rail’s giant Technical Centre in Derby, where a hundred and fifty mile an hour Train of Tomorrow is one of...
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Canada Bound. DESCRIPTION: Loaded aboard a cargo ship at London’s Royal Victoria Dock, the old steam loco Dominion of Canada, presented by British Rail to a Canadian Railroad Museum....
BFI synopsis: a new mechanized coal depot in North London. NCB Commentary - Coal handling in merchants’ yards by old fashioned methods is wasteful of manpower and often involves delaying rail wagons which...
BFI synopsis: co-operative stevedores at Grimsby docks unloading pit props for the mines. NCB Commentary - It’s a gray dawn at Immingham as a 4,000 ton Swedish freighter docks at the end of her Atlantic...
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Queen Opens Gatwick. DESCRIPTION: London’s second airport, twenty miles away from the capital, is easy to reach by road or rail. Her Majesty the Queen and Prince Philip came to...
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