Yesterday’s Britain: Capital Transport

Synopsis: A compilation of four films that show changes in London transport from 1947 - 1983.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2003
Year of production: 1947-1983
Notes: Also available on a DVD entitled CAPTIAL TRANSPORT COLLECTION, combined with BUILDING LONDON’S VICTORIA LINE and THE LONDON BUS.
Subjects: History
Keywords: bus services; London; trams; transport; underground railways; archive films

Title: Moving millions
Synopsis: A film on post-war London transport, made in 1947 by the Crown Film Unit for the LTPB and shown overseas through the COI. It features the underground and its extenstions, as well as the familiar red bus, trams, trolleybuses and Green Line coaches .
Title: London on the move
Synopsis: Some twenty years after MOVING MILLIONS, British Transport Films wAS commissioned to make an updated version entitled LONDON ON THE MOVE. Now in the swinging sixties,it shows the Victoria Line in action and the first generation Red Arrow buses.
Title: Moving London
Synopsis: In 1983 London Transport made MOVING LONDON a celebration of its fifty years service to the capital. As well as reviewing the past the film looks to the future with new trains and new buses.
Title: Elephant will never forger, The
Synopsis: The most famous British Transport Film of all, recalling the last week of trams in July 1952.

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