If You Drink - Don’t Drive
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 5 / 5
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: If You Drink - Don’t Drive. DESCRIPTION: Last Christmas over a hundred and thirty people were killed on the roads. Many the result of drunken driving. The Road Research Laboratory is asking the public to co-operate in breathing test experiments at the road-side. These tests will carry on through Christmas and compare the everyday results with the holiday period. SHOTLIST: Last Christmas over 130 people killed on the roads - many as a result of drunken driving. The Road Research Lab asks the public to co-operate in Breathalyser test. Opening shots of crashed cars. MS car draws up - policeman directs driver to man carrying out test. CU sign. Man talks to driver of car. Driver blowing into bag. CU man sealing bag. Car pulls away. In laboratory man gives bag to girl to test. CU Breathalyser machine. Further CUs girl and machine. CU girl takes notes. Cut to CU beer being poured out. Girl and man. CU man drinking. CU short being poured. Further shots man and girl and drinking. CU girl. CU man drinking. CU man about to leave - has car keys taken from his hand.
- Keywords
- Food and cooking; Transport
- Locations
- Buckinghamshire
- Card file number
- 89122
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 224
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How to cite this record
'If You Drink - Don’t Drive', British Movietone News Issue No. 1853, 7 Dec 1964. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/25782 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)