High Tea!

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1929
Date Released
23 May 1966
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1New Lift in the Air
  2. 2A Matter of Muscles
  3. 3Strike - Latest, It’s a Gas
  4. 4High Tea!
  5. 5Aussie Axemen Are Timber Tops

Story

Story No. within this Issue
4 / 5
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: High Tea!. DESCRIPTION: London’s newest landmark the GPO Tower is now opened to the public. The Queen had an entirely new view of her Capital City from the observation platform at the top. Diners in the restaurant there, will get an ever changing panorama of London and the Home Counties as the restaurant revolves. SHOTLIST: Key Scene. GV GPO Tower from street. GV GPO Tower zoom into. CU of top section. MS window cleaners at work. CU ditto. LAS Tower. MS the Queen walks onto observation platform. CU ditto. MS ditto looks through binoculars. GV zoom into Nelson’s Column and view of London. MS Mr Wedgwood-Benn and Sir Billy Butlin perform tape cutting. CU ditto. MS ditto. MS interior revolving restaurant. CU wheel turning in revolving restaurant. CU man’s feet on floor of revolving restaurant. CU glass held up in front of window. MS party seated at table in restaurant. GV of London through window of restaurant. GV interior Entrance hall of GPO Tower. Pan up. Exterior GPO Tower. MS people entering observation platform from lift. CU people looking through window of observation platform. Zoom in St Paul’s Cathedral pan to other London buildings zoom into Houses of Parliament. LAS exterior GPO Tower.
Keywords
Royalty; Buildings and structures
Locations
London; England
Card file number
91137
Credits:
Camera
John Mould
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
188
Story extras:
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