999

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1439A

Date Released

3 Jan 1957

Date submitted

17 Dec 1956

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1The Tests - One Up
2. 2And Now the Sales
3. 3The Boat Show
4. 4999
5. 5Fire!
6. 6Seeing in the New Year
7. *Hogmanay

* Story has local or special distribution

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:

Commentator

Geoffrey Sumner

Camera

Samuelson

Length of story (in feet)

120

Story extras:

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