Towards Tomorrow

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1958A

Date Released

15 Dec 1966

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Towards Tomorrow. DESCRIPTION: A new bypass, at Honiton, removes congestion at one of Britain’s worst bottlenecks. Tomorrow’s holiday journeys to the West should be a lot easier. At Aberfan, work goes ahead to remove the hazard from the disaster tip. The Enquiry seeks to remove similar dangers from all the Mining Communities of the country. SHOTLIST: GV Honiton, High Street, GV ditto. MS shop in Honiton. GV congested traffic near Honiton. GV Honiton Bypass before opening. MS pan up ditto. MS Barbara Castle cuts ribbon to open bypass. GV shot through car window as it moves down the bypass. GV Merthyr Tydfil street. GV ditto. MCU sign ‘Tribunal’ GV pan the tip at Aberfan. GV pan ditto. LAS crane at work lowering the height of tip. GV ditto. CU tractor at work on tip. GV pan tractors at work on tip pan to crane.

Keywords

Transport; Mining

Locations

Devon; Honiton

Card file number

91884

Credits:

Camera: John Wanstall
Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

134

Story extras:

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