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London Dock for Giant Liners

Series

Series Name
Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.
944-2
Date Released
30 Sep 1929
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1London Dock for Giant Liners
  2. 2Nine Norman Mayors
  3. 3New London Lord Mayor
  4. 4Woman Wheelers
  5. 5'A Mission of Peace and Goodwill’
  6. *'Always and Unchangeably with Honour’
  7. *Canada’s Call for Scots Girls
  8. *Morecambe Carnival

* Story has local or special distribution

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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Notes
The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).
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