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Series
- Series Name
- Cinegazette
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 3
- Summary
- NoS Summary - An exploration of electricity production and use in London Transport networks.
NoS synopsis: Electricity is used everywhere in London Transport networks, from signs to escalators to lights. This electricity is supplied by the power stations at Greenwich, Neasden and Lots Road. There small coal is loaded up and fed into furnaces. This burns, sends steam up the pipes and turns the turbines. The progress of this is measured on control panels in a vast control room.
We see a recreation of a power emergency, acted out by London Transport employees. Trolley buses are stopped by a sudden loss of power. The control room manages the problem and send out a repair vehicle. At the switch boxes around the route, engineers switch to an alternative supply so that the trolley buses can continue their journeys. Once the fault has been repaired at the substation, the boxes are switched back to their original settings. - Keywords
- Transport; Motor vehicles
- Written sources
- British Film Institute Databases
Viewing Copy - London Transport Museum Used for Synopsis
British Transport Films website
National Film Archive Catalogue
- Credits:
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- Producer
- Academy Picture Corporation
- Commentator
- Duncan Carse
- Sponsor
- London Transport Executive
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- London’s Transport Museum
- simon.murphy@ltmuseum.co.uk
- Web
- http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk
- Phone
- 020 7379 6344
- Fax
- 020 7565 7254
- Address
- 39 Wellington Street
Covent Garden
London WC2E 7BB - Series held
- View all series held by London’s Transport Museum
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
- For BFI National Archive enquiries:
nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk
For commercial/footage reuse enquiries:
footage.films@bfi.org.uk - Web
- http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web
- Phone
- 020 7255 1444
- Fax
- 020 7580 7503
- Address
- 21 Stephen Street
London W1T 1LN - Notes
- The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).
- Series held
- View all series held by British Film Institute (BFI)
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