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Hullo Down There

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2031
Date Released
6 May 1968
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Hullo Down There
  2. 2Transplant Fails
  3. 3Royalty Goes to the Dogs
  4. 4Survival in Space
  5. 5Follow the Salmon
  6. 6Lions at the Party
  7. 7Phantoms for Fleet Flyers

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 7
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Hello Down There. DESCRIPTION: A hundred feet below Holborn, the GPO’s London Underground Trunk Exchange, which handles up to two million calls a week. SHOTLIST: GV interior GPO Underground Trunk Exchange in London. CU telephone operator at work. BS another - ditto. CU ditto (x2). Trucking shot along new telephone exchange. MCU mass of telephone wires. MS GPO employees get off electric trolley. Trucking shot past telephone equipment in exchange. MS GPO technicians looking at equipment. LS ditto. MCU man operating tele-printer. CU telephone equipment in exchange. MS technician at work in exchange, on equipment. CU ditto. GV interior underground exchange.
Keywords
Communications; Science and technology
Locations
London; England; Holborn
Card file number
93480
Credits:
Commentator
Douglas Cameron
Camera
Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
Length of story (in feet)
90
Story extras:

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