Learning on ScreenMovietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: A Railway Comes of Age
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- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 4 / 8
- Section Title
- Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Gpo Railway Comes of Age. DESCRIPTION: The workings of the GPO Underground Railway which celebrates it’s 21st birthday. SHOTLIST: CUT STORY: KS Mail-bags being unloaded from miniature railway. Late dusk shots of Royal Mail vans being unloaded of mail-bags. SCU mail-bags. Pan of mail-bags. Pan of parcels etc. down huge slide to sorters. Sorters at work. Parcels being mended. Mail-bags on large conveyor. Miniature trains being unloaded and loaded with mail-bags. Train enters station, with 21st & mey on front of same. Unloading mail-bags. Trucking shot from train as it passes through station. Signalman at indicator working trains (no drivers). CU indicator shows position of trains. Trucking shot taken from train. SCU wheels of train passing camera.
- Keywords
- Commemorations; Railways; Celebrations and festivals
- Locations
- London; Mount Pleasant
- Card file number
- 51134
- Credits:
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- Camera
- Hilton Craig
- Commentator
- Lionel James Gamlin
- Length of story (in feet)
- 104
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