Saving Space in ‘Brum’

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1820

Date Released

20 Apr 1964

Date submitted

14 Apr 1964

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Saving Space in ‘Brum’
2. 2A Screen Up Your Sleeve
3. 3Undercover Girls
4. 4Pay-As-You-Workshop
5. 5Air Lift for Industry

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Saving Space in ‘Brum’. DESCRIPTION: Birmingham Corporation has just begun a unique experiment in car parking. Consisting of 3 ramps or arches, it is built in such a way that they can be dismantled and re-erected elsewhere if future town planning demands it. The new car park - 1/6 a day to park - can accommodate 400 cars. SHOTLIST: Key scene. LAS pan tiered car park. GV entrance to car park. LS car travelling up ramp. GV car parks itself on tier. CU pan car up ramp to top tier. GV car travelling around top tier. GV entrance to car park.

Keywords

Transport; Engineering; Town and country planning

Locations

Birmingham

Card file number

88182

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

68

Story extras:

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