Learning on ScreenOld Bill
Series
- Series Name
- Colour Pictorial
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 3
- Summary
- NoS Summary - A 1910 bus, nicknamed ‘Old Bill’, that became a troop carrier is seen along with other vintage buses and trams at the British Transport Commission in Clapham, London.
SHOTLIST: Ancient tram and bus exhibition - Clapham. Shot showing trams in present day Isle of Man. MS of the electric tram showing a man painting the frames of windows. CU showing man as he paints tram. CU of the man painting. MS of the man painting the stairs. CU of stairs as he paints them. CU man. CU of stairs as he fills in designs. Shot of "OLD BILL". MS in a London street showing present day London bus pulling away from stop, following it is Old Bill, modern bus goes out of picture. MS Old Bill coming towards and past camera. MS from inside the bus showing traffic going past outside the driver in front. MS of entrance to yard, Old Bill comes into picture and turns into the yard. MS inside the yard as Old Bill comes through, he stops by the side of K-type bus. CU of Old Bill’s wheels as he comes to a halt. MS driver as he gets out of cabin and looks under radiator. CU radiator which is a bust of an old soldier as the man opens the car [cap/cab?] he closes it again and starts to polish it, he finishes polishing. MS of the radiator cap, just behind it is a shell mounted under cab, we pan up to show a regimental badge mounted above the cab, underneath it are the names "Old Bill" [sic]. MS driver as he lifts up bonnet. CU engine driver does something inside, he closes bonnet on which are the letters "B 43". MS driver polishing a plaque which is mounted on side of bus. CU this plaque as he polishes it, on it are various names of battles fought in First World War. MS driver getting back into cab, Old Bill starts to move off out of picture. - Keywords
- Vehicles; Motor vehicles
- Locations
- London; England; Clapham
- Written sources
- British Pathe online database
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- David De Keyser
- Length of story (in feet)
- 255
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