999
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 4 / 6
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Dial 999. DESCRIPTION: At the nerve centre of the Metropolitan Police a new time system has been started. It halves the time taken to pass an emergency call to a patrol car. In a matter of seconds the car’s in contact. Last year nearly a million messages were handled by the Information Room. SHOTLIST: CU hands dialing 999. Interiors of police information room. Policeman answers phone. GV information room. Emergency message put onto conveyor belt. Radio operator gives out message. Received by police car. Night shots of police car along road. Woman gives directions. Police car chasing another car. Car stops - criminals run away from same. Police give chase. Capture criminals.
- Keywords
- Communications; Police
- Locations
- Scotland
- Card file number
- 69197
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Geoffrey Sumner
- Camera
- Samuelson
- Length of story (in feet)
- 120
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