Clean Runs the River

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2102A
Date Released
18 Sep 1969
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Record Breaker Sheila
  2. 2Clean Runs the River
  3. 3World Speedway
  4. 4It’s a Knock Out

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 4
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Clean Runs the River. DESCRIPTION: The GLC’s Twenty million pound purification scheme for the Thames is already bringing results. Anglers join in a fishing experiment - and prove that fish can survive and breed in the formerly heavily polluted waters in the heart of London. Fishing is one of the most popular leisure activities - while Boating is helping to give a new lease of leisure life to our often neglected inland waterways. A Club on the Regent Canal in London, teaches the basics of boating to youngsters for a mere sixpence a week. The idea of Lord St Davids, it could inspire an interest in water sports among many thousands of less privileged children in urban areas all over the country. SHOTLIST: 3 shots Thameside Embankment showing dirt & waste deposits. HAS man shaking small bottle of sampled water on boat. MCU 2 fishermen on boat preparing their rods. MS 4 fishermen on boat. MS man with landing net. MS man sitting & fishing from boat. MLS boat in Thames. MS pan fishermen on boat. MS fishermen catches old tea pot. MLS fisherman on boat. MCU Sally Plummer weighing fish. CU fish. MCU pan fish & Sally. CU fish in bucket. BS barge in Regents Canal. CU boats & bank. Lord St. Davids panning to kids getting into boat & other pulling a boat ashore. MS pan child gets in boat. MCU boy rowing on canal. MCU boy in canoe approaches camera. GV pan several boats & kids rowing on canal. MCU 4 kids in boat. MS kid standing in boat. MS boy overturns canoe in water. MCU 2 boys in boat, pan to another boat. MS children onlooking. MS child rowing boat. MS 2 onlookers. MS child rowing boats in circles.
Keywords
Organisations; Buildings and structures; Entertainment and leisure; Environment; Pollution; Local government
Locations
London; River Thames; United Kingdom
Card file number
95168
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
216
Story extras:
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