Undermining Manchester

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1734
Date Released
27 Aug 1962
Date submitted
20 Aug 1962
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 6
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Undermining Manchester. DESCRIPTION: Damage estimated at more than a million pounds has been caused by the Coal Board’s major extensions to Bradford Colliery. The pit, more than 100 years old, has recently undergone extensive modernisation. Besides damage to factory buildings and installations (the biggest gasometer has started tilting over), the brick bed of a river has been fractured in several places, and hundreds of houses, too, have been affected. SHOTLIST: Key scene. GV gas holder tilting. MS Gas Board building. MS man looks at cracks on building. MCU pan cracks on interior of house. MS colliery. CU sign National Coal Board. (2 shots) colliery (newish building). MS river. MS old people look at sloping wall. MS door cracked. MS window cracked. MCU sink, woman fills kettle. (5 shots) cracked wall.
Keywords
Buildings and structures
Locations
Manchester
Footage sources
Apollo Films
Card file number
84929
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
108
Story extras:
Film clip

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'Undermining Manchester', British Movietone News Issue No. 1734, 27 Aug 1962. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/24762 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)