Big Post Office Job

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1542

Date Released

22 Dec 1958

Date submitted

17 Dec 1958

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Big Post Office Job
2. 2Mail for the Troops
3. 3Over the Sea to Shop
4. 4New Cardinals
5. 5Quite a Party
6. 6The Tree in London
7. *Greetings Card

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Big Post Office Job. DESCRIPTION: Post Office people must sometimes think the sending of Christmas presents is just a bad habit. It is a colossal job, all this handling and sorting of parcels of every weight, size and shape. And some parcels are badly packed! SHOTLIST: MS man receives parcels from chute (key). MS man empty sacks. Closer - same. MS man receives parcels from chute. MS man looks at parcel. GV men handle parcels. MS people sort parcels. GV parcels on slope. Same - men sort parcels. Same. MS man examines damaged parcels. CU same. CU man looks at pheasants.

Keywords

Celebrations and festivals; Postal services

Locations

London; England

Card file number

75876

Credits:

Commentator

Geoffrey Sumner

Camera

Terry O’Brien

Length of story (in feet)

68

Story extras:

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