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London Transport related by worker 1980's
Mixture of archive and new (1980's) film. A look at architecture. 1930's archival tube material. People in underground in blitz. Festival of London 1951. End of trams. Aldenham repair shop for RT buses. Green line buses, electrical bus monitoring. Building the Underground on the Victoria Line in 1969. Jubilee Line 1979.
Synopsis 2:
Title rolls by on electronic indicator board. Retired London Transport worker Walter Harriss joins queue at ticket office. He is the seen descending stairs of Earl's Court underground station. He sits on bench in front of station sign and reads his paper and smokes his pipe. He observes the platform opposite packed with morning commuters. Long shot of crowded platform. Shot from inside ticket office over the shoulder of a clerk serving. Long high shot of routemaster buses moving along Oxford Street. Cut to commuters ascending escalator at an underground station. Another shot from the bottom of the escalator. Harriss is then shown boarding a one man bus and passing the driver. Back to busy platform shot of Earls Court. Next neon signs hover on black background, L.C.C. Trams, General, Tramways, and Metropolitan Railway. These all merge into London Transport logo. Cut out of chairman, Lord Ashfield, and painting of his deputy, Frank Pick, shown. External London Transport sign, then 1950's shot of entrance to Marble Arch tube station. Shot of exterior sign for Piccadilly Circus tube station, followed by outside of Green Park station. Then Hyde Park Corner, Wanstead, Arnos Grove, St. John's Wood, Southgate, and finally a bus stop sign advertising 701, 702, 704, 705, 714, 715, 716A, and 717 coaches. Door of tube train shuts as another train hurtles by on adjacent track. Shot of woman sitting alone on tube train from 1950's. Cut to man reading paper on tube train. Shot from trackside of two tube trains passing each other in opposite directions. Passengers standing inside tube carriage holding handles. Probably a District Line train from the late 50's, early sixties. Women shown making their way through crowded carriage. Shot from platform of tube train arriving at District Line station. Shot of statue of male archer outside East Finchley station. Then Sudbury Hill tube station followed by the waiting room on Dollis Hill platform.
Outside of Southgate station before cutting to blazing building from blitz in Second World War. Fireman shown scaling ladder to top of a building as flames continue. Move to people taking shelter on a platform of a tube station. Camera pans along platform as people in blankets try to sleep. One woman is shown knitting before we see women distributing refreshments as tube train moves off. Back to a blazing building and a number of shots of the flaming blocks. Ground shot of helmeted firemen hosing the flames. Next fire personnel moving debris from street amid blaze. Shot of church tower among smoke before St. Paul's emerges through the haze. Aerial colour shot of devastated buildings and minimal ruins. Colour shot of taxi and red bus, number 15 to Ladbroke Grove, passing runs of building. Number 6 bus shown passing heavily scaffolded building. Shot of crowded platform just after the war as steam train arrives. Shot of wall sign depicting arrow, bow, and ball. Then looped diagram showing Leytonstone, Woodford, and line moving to Newbury Park, for extensions to the Central Line. Front of tube train going to Newbury Park, then shot of inside where chairman sits with a woman on the first train along that line. Picture of Walter Harris getting up from platform seat with newspaper.
Colour shot of poster for 1951 Festival of Britain. Shot of map depicting site for festival on the South Bank. Exterior shot of girdered building on the South Bank. People shown walking by building. Shot of outdoor café and customers on South Bank. More colour shots of people crowding around at the festival and descending stairs. One black man in a hat reads a programme as he walks. Red and blue balloons are released into the air from the South Bank...
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27 июн 2021
