The Towers of London (In Colour)

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1793
Date Released
14 Oct 1963
Date Other
1963
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Bombshell at Blackpool
  2. 2The Towers of London (In Colour)

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 2
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Towers of London (In Colour). DESCRIPTION: Some 250 tall buildings have changed the face of London since the war. For 260 years, the dome of St Paul’s has towered supreme above the City. Part of Sir Christopher Wren’s design for London after the Great Fire, it lived through that other great holocaust of the Blitz. But will it become dwarfed by the building boom? Already, it is being challenged on all sides. There is the Vickers building on Millbank, 34 storeys of steel and glass; the Shell building, a city within a city, with its own restaurants, a swimming pool, squash courts and rifle range, as well as offices, and the highest of them all, the Post Office Radio Tower, over 600 feet high. SHOTLIST: Scenes. Aerial view of Thames with Vickers building on left, same with Shell Building besides County Hall. Aerial St Paul’s Cathedral. LS same from ground. LS new building being erected. LAS new building with St Paul’s in background. MLS another. LS St Paul’s as seen through window of old building. GV bombed site. CU sign The Site of the Grey Friars. LS new building on bombed site. LAS pan up same. MLS new building. GV row of new buildings. LS Tower of London with bombed site in foreground. ES work on Elephant and Castle scene. MS same. GV same. LS cranes over site. GV Elephant and Castle site. MLS same. MLS old Vickers building being pulled down. LS new Vickers building. LS new buildings beside old ones. MLS same. LS others. MLS same. LS new block of flats. CU sign Barbican. LS the Barbican site. LS new block of flats. LS houses in Nash Terrace. GV same. MLS entrances to houses in Regents Park. LS row of old houses in Canonbury. MS same. MLS new restored buildings in Canonbury. GV others (2 shots). CU same. CU sign Entrance to Canonbury Square. GV Canonbury Square. GV Metropolitan Theatre in Edgware Road. CU sign of same. MS clearance sign over shop windows. GV demolition site. MS fire burning on site. CU same (2 shots). LAS modern building. MLS Hilton Hotel. LS same. GV entrance to same. LAS pan up Carlton Tower Hotel. CU windows of same. LS pan up GPO Tower. GV of London as seen from the new GPO Tower (2 shots). End Title.
Keywords
Buildings and structures
Locations
London
Card file number
87167
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Camera
Mark McDonald
Camera
Ronald E. Collins
Length of story (in feet)
374
Story extras:
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