London Dock for Giant Liners
Series
- Series Name
- Topical Budget
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 5
- Summary
- [SUBTITLE]: "From the deck of the Liner ‘Oronsay’ Lady Ritchie opens immense railway and road bridge to inaugurate world’s most modern docks system at Tilbury." Two long shots of docks. Lady Ritchie moves lever. LS cantilevered bridge opening with liner SS ‘Oronsay’ waiting to go through. Shot on board liner as it passes through. Return to LS of liner. View of crowds seen from moving ship. Return to LS of moving liner. CS JH Thomas talking. View of docks. MLS ‘Oronsay’ being led out by tugs.
- Keywords
- Ships and boats; Aristocracy; Ceremonies; Engineering
- Length of story (in feet)
- 88
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- British Film Institute (BFI)
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