The Weather & Industrial Crisis

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2591

Date Released

28 Jan 1979

Stories in this Issue:

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Story No. within this Issue

1 / 3

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Bad Weather & Industrial Crisis. DESCRIPTION: Britain suffers under the strain of the worst Winter weather for sixteen years and the strikes that dog the Industrial scene. The Road Haulage dispute has meant that raw materials and food are not being moved about the country. The Nation’s commuters suffer from rail strikes and snow & ice make travelling even more difficult. The one-day strike of the public services meant closed schools, only emergency ambulance services and no refuse collection. SHOTLIST: LAS tree-lined road in snow. GV snow covered suburban garden. GV ditto. CU snow covered shrubs. GV snow covered woodland. Pan snow St. James Park lake. CU ducks in snow. MS ducks & geese. MS goose. MS snow on Thames Embankment. GV pan ditto to Houses of Parliament. CU newspaper headline ‘Cabinet rush to halt Price Rise flow’. GV deserted railways tracks. MS ditto. GV Fleet Street and traffic. LS sign ‘Fleet Street’. LS sign ‘Daily Mirror’. LS sign ‘Daily Express’. LS sign ‘Daily Telegraph’. MLS pedestrians with umbrellas in snow. MS ditto. LS small aircraft parked in snow-bound airfield. GV ditto. CU headline Ambulance 999 Ban is lifted. MS ambulance driver pickets outside depot. CU sign ‘NUPE Official Picket’. MS picket. CU sign ‘Today our Wages go to Charity’. GV pan sign to ambulance leaving for emergency call. GV Hillingdon Hospital. CU sign ‘Abbotsfield & Swakeleys Schools’. CU padlocks. GV closed school gates. CU headline ‘Tube men strike Threat’. GV railways tracks in snow. CU headline ‘Lorry Pay Sanctions Scrapped’. MS lorry driver pickets in snow. MCU ditto. CU TGWU strike sign. GV pickets in snow. GV factory ‘Western Ice’. CU pan brazier to picketing drivers. GV ditto. CU driver with union card. CU headline ‘Drivers may get 20% to end strike’. CU car covered in snow. Various of traffic along snow covered motorway. GV pan snow covered countryside. CU headline ‘Cheer up it could be worse’. CU headline ‘But not much’.

Keywords

Weather; Labour relations

Locations

London; Harrow; Gloucestershire; Denham

Card file number

79/6

Credits:

Camera: Denis White
Commentator: Leonard Martin
Camera: Richard Day

Length of story (in feet)

308

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