Highway Litter-Louts

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1776

Date Released

17 Jun 1963

Date Other

Jun 1963

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Highway Litter-Louts. DESCRIPTION: The British are among the worst offenders for leaving litter lying about. But all those abandoned, worn-out cars, are becoming a serious eye-sore. Our film archives offer some suggestions. Take a tip from the Municipal Car-Dump at Bristol. All vehicles (found abandoned by the police) are brought here to be converted into scrap metal. They’ve got a press which crushes the components into bales for easy handling. A mechanical cannibal which consumes its fellows, with unfeeling efficiency. SHOTLIST: Key scene. Cars abandoned along roadside (3 shots). MS car pulled up. MS car drops on concrete slab. MS pan - car smashed up. GV car over cliff. GV another (2 shots). TS pan breaker’s yard. Men smashing up cars (2 shots). Parts of car being crushed (3 shots). MCU same (3 shots). Car crushed and made into small block. TS breaker’s yard. Car takes 200 foot drop (2 shots). TS same.

Keywords

Industry and manufacture; Pollution

Locations

United States of America; Bristol; United Kingdom

Footage sources

Library

Card file number

86706

Credits:

Commentator: Geoffrey Sumner
Camera: Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
Camera: James Humphries

Length of story (in feet)

150

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