Essex - It’s Her Station

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1690A

Date Released

26 Oct 1961

Date submitted

24 Oct 1961

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Essex - Its Her Station. DESCRIPTION: Miss Dolly Palmer runs a railway station single-handed. Attending to the signal lamps is just one of her chores. Who issues the tickets to the passengers? Dolly Palmer. And who is the cleaner, booking-clerk, ticket collector, porter and station-master? Dolly Palmer. But she’s not complaining! She’s happy in her station. SHOTLIST: Key scene. MLS Miss Palmer walking to work. MS same. GV railway station. MLS Palmer climbing ladder to signal. MS same. MLS cleaning the lamp. MCU same. MS selling tickets. MS same. MS weighing luggage. LS signal box. MS working the signal levers. MCU filling in book. MS train entering station. CU station name plate. MS pushing luggage trolley. MLS train. CU Miss Palmer.

Keywords

Women; Railways

Locations

Essex; Althorne

Card file number

83365

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell
Camera: Mark McDonald

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