Market Trouble

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1468

Date Released

22 Jul 1957

Date submitted

17 Jul 1957

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Story No. within this Issue

6 / 7

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Covent Garden Market Strike. DESCRIPTION: London’s famous market, Covent Garden has been having strike trouble. Merchants and buyers of produce were handling loads themselves, while strikers stood by, watching but not (at first) interfering. SHOTLIST: GV high angle. Market area. Another same. MS owners and buyers unloading a potato lorry. CU buyer with sack. Buyer loading up van. LS strikers looking on. Buyer loads his car. MS strikers. MS pan woman wheels loaded barrow. Another woman with loaded barrow. LS men loading lorry. CU same. LS same. Private car drives away loaded up. Lorry drives away through strikers and police. GV top shot market. Another same. COVENT GARDEN STRIKE - CARD 71261 Shots of people attending to their goods themselves as the strikers stand by and watch. Shots of the food being loaded into cars, lorries and vans. Shots of housewives wheeling the food along the road.

Keywords

Vehicles; Business and commerce; Demonstrations; Labour relations

Locations

London; Covent Garden

Card file number

71261

Credits:

Commentator: Geoffrey Sumner
Camera: James Humphries
Camera: Samuelson

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