Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: The Crisis

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
952
Date Released
1 Sep 1947
Date submitted
29 Aug 1947
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Enterprise Scotland Exhibition Opens
  2. 2Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Aquatics: Bathing Beauty Contest
  3. 3Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Aquatics: US Olympic Hopes
  4. 4Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Aquatics: Water Jousting
  5. 5Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: The American Scene
  6. 6Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: The American Scene
  7. 7Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: The American Scene
  8. 8Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Paris Welcomes Victor of Alamein
  9. 9Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: The Crisis
  10. *Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Clayton and Phillips Get Ready

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue
9 / 9
Section Title
Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Crisis - Ration and Basic Petrol Cuts. DESCRIPTION: More cuts and restrictions have been announced and they will affect motorists and eating-out in restaurants. SHOTLIST: CUT STORY: KS GV Oxford Street, shows Underground Station and traffic. Elevated shot of Oxford Circus. Same shot as KS. Trucking shots of motor car showrooms, showing new cars etc. One car with £1,000 label on windscreen, agent takes off label and cuts off one of the naughts, replacing label on windscreen. Various shots of Travel Agencies, shows windows displaying holidays abroad, Switzerland, Sweden etc. SCU butcher takes leg of meat off hook and chops same in half. CU looking over person’s shoulder at newspaper Daily Mail which he is reading. Several individual shots of hotels, Dorchester, Trocadero, Savoy, Oddeninos, Hungaria, etc. Shots of cafes. LAS Corner House sign. MCU Restaurant sign. CU restaurant window. GV High Street tea rooms. MS blackboard chalked with dishes and prices, eg Steak & Chips 2/9d. Pan down window of fish and chip shop. CU 2/3d lunch in glass door. Person enters cafe. Interior - cafe. CU man holding knife and fork. CU plate of food and mix to (dissolve) small plate of food. CU fat man holding knife and fork, dissolve to thin man holding same.
Locations
London
Card file number
49077
Credits:
Camera
Alec Tozer
Camera
Hilton Craig
Camera
J. L. Ramsden
Commentator
Lionel James Gamlin
Camera
Martin Gray
Camera
Norman Fisher
Length of story (in feet)
105
Story extras:
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