Portland Stone for St Paul’s
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 4
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Portland Stone for St Paul’s. DESCRIPTION: Christopher Wren was the name of one of the dockers who unloaded the Thames Sailing Barge. The cargo of Portland stone is for the restoration of St Paul’s. The dockers’ wages went towards the £3 million fund. SHOTLIST: GV pan up front of St Paul’s. AS crumbling stone post. GV roof and dome. CU pan down & pull back cracks in crumbling wall. SV crumbling walls. CU pan as hand runs nail along wall & bits flake out. GV barge in Thames with cargo of Portland stone. CU name May on barge. SV stone block being unloaded. SV cogs on crane turning. SV dockers lowering stone. SV members of Court of Worshipful Company of Masons watching. SV another block being lowered onto wharf, stone marked by Christopher Wren. LV masons standing watching. CU block of stone marked by Wren, pan up to docker named Christopher Wren sitting on it. SV press photographers. SV docker Wren hands Dean of St Paul’s, Reverend Martin Sullivan cheque for £40.00 collected by dockers for St Paul’s appeal fund. SV pan wagon and horses taking stone to St Paul’s, Dean sitting on stone waving, pan up to Dome of St Paul’s.
- Keywords
- Buildings and structures; Ships and boats
- Locations
- London
- Card file number
- 98384
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leonard Martin
- Camera
- Reginald William Smith
- Length of story (in feet)
- 108
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