Learning on ScreenThe Motorist’s Nightmare
Series
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- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 3
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Motorist’s Nightmare. DESCRIPTION: Our pictures show a motorist’s nightmare: crowded streets. No-where to park. Rules, regulations and fines. Pinched if you don’t use a parking meter. Pinched in you stay too long. It really is one nightmare after another! SHOTLIST: Key scene. GV man looking at car (Motor Show). CU man looking at front of car. MCU man’s face. CU price of car. GV man looking. MS sign ‘Vehicle Testing Station’. LS man bringing car in for test. GV car attendant talking to owner. MCU man falls asleep dissolve to car in testing bay. CU mechanic knocks headlights off. MS same knocks wing off. MCU face of man dreaming. MS mechanic pulls wheel off. MS mechanic knocks bonnet off. MS engine wiring comes away in mechanic’s hands. MS another wheel falls off. MLS the radiator falls down. MS faulty wires. MCU owner panic stricken. MS same (103) the mechanic wakes him up. MS owner gets out of car. Pan to him running down the road. TS street jammed with cars. MS same. MS parking meter. MCU man looking out of the corner of his eye (dreaming). CU parking meter indicating various offences. MCU man winces. CU traffic warden beckoning. MCU car driver’s face registers horror. Sequence of parking meters. CU traffic warden pointing. MS parking meter looks as though falling. CU same. MS a policeman’s head appears then disappears. CU a meter appears to come straight at you. CU car owner shields his face. Sequence of parking meters. CU meter working. TS the frightened car owner. Sequence of parking meters. Sequence of traffic wardens. CU frightened man. CU traffic warden. Sequence of traffic wardens, frightened man’s face. Sequence of warden. Man’s face registers horror. Sequence of traffic wardens, parking meters 2 shots, of frightened man’s face. TEN YEAR TEST Barnet & N Middlesex Salvage yards. Various scenes of cars and scrap.
- Keywords
- Vehicles; Curiosities; Police; Road transport; Crime; Exhibitions and shows
- Locations
- England
- Card file number
- 81086
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Jeffrey K. Shearley
- Camera
- Len Waldorf
- Length of story (in feet)
- 228
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