Petrol - What a Performance

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1436

Date Released

10 Dec 1956

Date submitted

6 Dec 1956

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Home for Christmas
2. 2Children’s Festival
3. 3Pompeii - New Discoveries
4. 4Floods
5. 5Snow
6. 6The Ice Mountain
7. 7Canada - Oil Boom
8. 8Petrol - What a Performance

Story

Story No. within this Issue

8 / 8

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Petrol Rationing in Cyprus. DESCRIPTION: Before petrol rationing started in Cyprus, pump-crawling was much the same as over here. Short supplies and short tempers. SHOTLIST: Shots of lots of cars entering garage. CU petrol pump. Various shots of men arguing. Man filling his car up with petrol. Various shots of men arguing.

Keywords

Transport

Locations

Cyprus; Nicosia

Card file number

69114

Credits:

Commentator

Geoffrey Sumner

Camera

Len Waldorf

Length of story (in feet)

65

Story extras:

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