Under the Thames

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1992

Date Released

7 Aug 1967

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Under the Thames
2. 2Secret Island
3. 3Cowes Week - Colour

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 3

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Under the Thames. DESCRIPTION: The new Blackwall Tunnel, costing eight and a half million pounds, is opened by the Chairman of the GLC. At a hospital near Maidstone, students are building a road to make life easier for the wheel-chair patients. SHOTLIST: MS Desmond Plummer cuts ribbon to open Blackwall Tunnel. GV official cars travelling through tunnel. Trucking shot through tunnel. GV official cars leaving tunnel. MS French girl takes off jacket and starts using pick axe to build road in hospital. GV Leybourne Grange Hospital. CU sign ‘Leybourne Grange Hospital’. MS site of road cut through field. MCU Helen Davis of Stevenage & Allison Cooke of Leicester work. MCU Rosemary Jackmen from Ireland working. MS Ragnild Mihic of Sweden working. MS men past pushing wheel barrow. MCU girl digging. MS ditto (x2).

Keywords

Politics and government; Buildings and structures; Ceremonies; Local government; Engineering

Locations

England; Blackwall Tunnel; Leybourne Grange Hospital, Maidstone

Card file number

92658

Credits:

Camera

Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw

Camera

John Mould

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

110

Story extras:

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