Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Mitcham Fire Darkens London
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 8
- Section Title
- Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Mitcham Rubber Dump Goes Up in Smoke. DESCRIPTION: When tons of dumped rubber caught fire black smoke hung over London. SHOTLIST: KS Various ground shots, all angles of dense clouds of smoke rising from burning rubber tyre dump. LS of burning fire. Fire engine along road towards fire, bells clanging etc. Various shots, firemen fighting the fire, MS of fire engine pumps working. Firemen holding hose-pipe, directing water onto fire. Several shots of rising smoke, comparable with clouds caused by atom bomb. Aerial shots of raging fire, dense and huge clouds smoke rising, darkening the skies.
- Keywords
- Fires
- Locations
- Surrey
- Card file number
- 48642
- Credits:
-
- Camera
- David Prosser
- Commentator
- Lionel James Gamlin
- Camera
- Martin Gray
- Camera
- Norman Fisher
- Length of story (in feet)
- 111
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How to cite this record
'Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Mitcham Fire Darkens London', British Movietone News Issue No. 939A, 5 Jun 1947. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/14470 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)