Keep Up the Pressure

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2051A

Date Released

26 Sep 1968

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 4

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Keeping Up the Pressure. DESCRIPTION: With the Supermarkets making big cuts in cigarette prices, the small trader views the future with grave doubts. He claims he gives a better service to the customer - but can he afford to cut prices?. Service is the tradition of those other men concerned with smoke - as with so many emergencies. No sooner had they come off duty from pumping out flooded homes than London’s firemen are pumping again. An off-duty Marathon to set a long distance Manual Pumping record of thirty hours. SHOTLIST: CU 3 shots cigarette being lit. LAS sign Cigarettes Cut Prices. MS people queuing for cigarettes. MS man buying cigarettes in tobacconists. CU money handed over. MS pan down - cigarettes on shelves. CU cigarettes being stubbed out. MS pan firemen pulling 1870’s manual fire pump at Battersea. MCU woman looking at display of Fire Brigade Illustrations. MS ditto. GV firemen working pump. CU nozzle. MCU pan up firemen directing jet. MCU pump. MCU firemen working pump. CU plungers of pump. MCU firemen working pump. MS pan man brings tankards of beer for firemen. MCU firemen pumping. CU fireman pumping and drinking. MS fireman clocking on. CU ditto. MS fireman pumping.

Keywords

Competitions; Shops and shopping; Business and commerce; Records; Exhibitions and shows

Locations

London; United Kingdom

Card file number

93952

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

146

Story extras:

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