Yesterday and to-day No.1

Series

Series Name

Around The Town

Issue

Issue No.

88

Date Released

4 Aug 1921

Length of issue (in feet)

750

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Yesterday and to-day No.1
2. 2In the Studio of the Hon. Neville Lytton
3. 3A few moments with Alice Brady.
4. 4Pheasant Rearing. Taken at the East Essex Game Farm
5. 5Some Novelty Sunshades -
6. 6Proverb Competition: This Cartoon No.10 represents a well-known Proverb, and is the last of the Competition.
7. 7A Short dance duet from "Puss Puss"
8. 8The latest fashionable pet. The Mongoose

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 8

Summary

Summary - Contrasting scenes of old and new London Bridge
NoS synopsis: ‘Yesterday and to-day No.1’ intertitle with cartoons of a stage coach and a ‘plane in the background. ‘If Rip Van Winkle could visit London Bridge after a 100 years nap, he would see some changes -'. ‘1821 - 1921 (Early record by courtesy of Ellis & Smith.) Close up of an etching of London Bridge and its environs. Fade to a long shot of the London Bridge of 1921. A few cars and buses go by. Pan to the nearside bank where men are at work on scaffolding. St Paul’s in seen in the distance.

Keywords

Scenery and travel

Locations

London; England

Written sources

Kinematograph Weekly   28 July 1921, p33.
The Bioscope   11 August 1921, p52.
Viewing Copy - bfi   Used for Synopsis

Credits:

Production Co.

Around the Town Ltd.

Length of story (in feet)

89

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British Film Institute (BFI)

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