Fuel and Power
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 5 / 7
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Fuel and Power. DESCRIPTION: They’ve been queuing up for coke at the Birkenhead and Wallasey Gasworks - for coke, because of the coal shortage. An ingenious method of providing power - by Windmill generator has been in operation at one branch of a famous London restaurant company near Marble Arch. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. Coke being shovelled into sack. At Birkenhead & Wallasey, people queuing for coke, being served, & paying cash at office. Prams etc. being used as transport. London, on top of Cumberland Hotel, various shots of windmills, including close-ups. MS instrument registering amperes. Elevated GV looking down Bayswater Road from top of hotel. MS (night) shop window lit up by power supplied from windmills.
- Keywords
- Buildings and structures; Shops and shopping; Business and commerce; Science and technology; Industry and manufacture
- Locations
- London; Birkenhead; Wallasey
- Card file number
- 54943
- Credits:
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- Camera
- Alec Tozer
- Camera
- David W. Samuelson
- Camera
- James Humphries
- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 68
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