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Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Solving the Load Shedding Problem

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
960
Date Released
27 Oct 1947
Date submitted
23 Oct 1947
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Solving the Load Shedding Problem
  2. 2Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Sky Queen Survivors Reach Us
  3. 3Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: A Game of ‘Foot the Ball’
  4. 4Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: King George V Statue Unveiling
  5. *Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: South Croydon Train Smash

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 4
Section Title
Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Shedding the Load - Factory Problem. DESCRIPTION: Many industrial plants, such as Hoover, are taking action to shed the load on the National Grid at peak times. SHOTLIST: KS GV girls working at bench. Silhouette fire watcher on roof. Interior shots of factory, show men at machines. CU indicator, shows that fuel is approaching it’s peak. Fuel watcher presses button, girl at microphone, sees light come on, then talks into mike Electricity Warning - Shut Down at Once, cut-in of tannoy speaker. Cut-ins of operators switching off their machines, several shots, also shot of mechanic switching off large stamping machine. MS girls working at bench, component parts of vacuum cleaner (Hoover) going along overhead on wire conveyor, cut-in manager and engineer talking over a graph showing various power cuts. Men operator testing Hoovers. MS assembly line. Several shots of cases of finished article coming down chute and along conveyor belts to finish out of camera.
Keywords
Industry and manufacture
Locations
Middlesex; Perivale; Hoover Factory
Card file number
49340
Credits:
Camera
David Prosser
Camera
Hilton Craig
Commentator
Lionel James Gamlin
Camera
Norman Fisher
Length of story (in feet)
140
Story extras:

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