New Thames Tunnel

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1502

Date Released

17 Mar 1958

Date submitted

13 Mar 1958

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Purfleet Tunnel. DESCRIPTION: London’s River - and a progress report on the tunnel being built between Dartford and Purfleet. The completed tunnel will cost something like eleven million pounds, and should be ready within four years. SHOTLIST: Pan of river. MS going down in lift. CU lift at base of tunnel, men leaving. GV tunnel. MS tunnel. MS men shovelling chalk. CU man with lever. MS men working. CU men same. CU same. CU man drilling chalk. MS same. CU same. Men enter pressure cabin. MS in pressure cabin. Pan of gauges. CU gauge. MS men leave cabin. Map of project.

Keywords

Buildings and structures; Industry and manufacture; Engineering

Locations

River Thames; Kent; England; Dartford

Footage sources

Pathe

Card file number

73101

Credits:

Commentator: Geoffrey Sumner

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