News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

529

Date Released

11 Feb 1965

Date recorded

8 Jan 1965

Length of issue (in feet)

789

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. The Victoria Line
• 2. Spanish Dance

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 2

Summary

Pathe synopsis: Newly constructed skyscraper blocks bring a hint of Manhattan to London yet there’s another engineering revolution taking place beneath the teeming traffic. The capital’s blue-clay bed is being tunnelled away at the rate of ten feet a day to provide London’s first underground railway for thirty-five years. It’s a ten-mile project - from Victoria to Walthamstow - and Pic cameras have been exploring this air-conditioned world with its mass of machinery which cuts the twenty-one-foot-diameter tunnel then strengthens the walls with huge iron rings. It’s a fascinating and precise operation - yet relaxing lunch-hour crowds on the surface don’t realise what’s happening beneath their feet.

Keywords

Transport; Engineering

Locations

London; England

Written sources

Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards   Used for synopsis

Length of story (in feet)

599

Story extras:

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Notes

Pathe now also handles the Reuters Historical Collection, which includes the British Paramount, Empire British, Gaumont Graphic and Gaumont British newsreels.

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