Learning on ScreenSorting at Speed
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 5
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Sorting at Speed. DESCRIPTION: Preston in Lancashire, handling some six million parcels a year, is one of the most important mail centres in Britain. At the new sorting office alongside the railway station, they’ve installed a parcel sorting system which could well be adopted all over the country. Dealing with eighteen hundred parcels an hour, the machine is controlled by an electronic brain which helps the staff to route the parcels towards their destination. SHOTLIST: Key scene. ES Preston Station. MS porter with barrow of mail bags. GV exterior sorting office. CU hooking mail bag on conveyor belt. MCU mail bags on conveyor belt. MS same. BS same. MCU electronic brain. CU pan down same. MS man empties mail bag. CU same and contents down chute. MCU man sorting parcels for destinations. CU pressing destination panel. MCU switches. CU parcel along belt and down into chute. CU man reads label and presses appropriate button. CU parcel down chute. BS parcels along conveyor belt. CU men handling parcels. MCU same.
- Keywords
- Railways; Communications; Science and technology; Postal services
- Locations
- Lancashire; Preston
- Card file number
- 87444
- Credits:
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- Camera
- Keith Medley
- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 99
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