The Elephant Will Never Forget

Series

Series Name

Cinegazette

Issue

Issue No.

12

Date Released

1953

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1The Elephant Will Never Forget

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 1

Summary

BTF synopsis: Trams in London are a thing of the past - buses have taken over - but many Londoners, and especially the Cockneys, will always remember them with affection, and in song. The film, completed in London’s ‘Last Tram Week’, takes you round the streets of South London and along the Embankment with two Cockneys who remember a song about trams they sang in the music halls fifty years ago. Finally, 20,000 Londoners cheer and sing their goodbyes to the trams which for ninety-one years had rattled and clanged their way past - particularly through the colourful and lively part of South London near the Elephant & Castle.

Keywords

Vehicles; Road transport; History and archaeology

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases
British Transport Films website   Used for synopsis
Film User   Vol.8 No.93 July 1954, p334.

Credits:

Commentator

Brewster Mason

Production Co.

British Transport Films

Camera

Cyril Moorehead

Producer

Edgar Anstey

Director

John Krish

Support services

John Krish

Sponsor

London Transport Executive

Camera

Robert Paynter

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Film Archive

Name

London’s Transport Museum

Email

simon.murphy@ltmuseum.co.uk

Web

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Fax

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Address

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Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

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Web

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Phone

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Fax

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Address

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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).

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