Time Will Tell

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2020A
Date Released
22 Feb 1968
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
5 / 5
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Time Will Tell. DESCRIPTION: Another argument concerns the Bill to make British Summer Time - or Standard Time as it’s called - a permanent thing. We visit the observatory where GMT began, and consider some of the objections to BST. SHOTLIST: GV Royal Naval College, pan to Royal Greenwich Observatory. Trucking shot along Prime Meridian Line, pan up to sign Prime Meridian of the World. CU sign - ditto. MS magnetic clock showing GMT. CU hand on clock. MCU second hand turning. CU minute hand turning. GV Royal Greenwich Observatory. GV Houses of Parliament. MS school children playing. CU ditto. GV cars past in darkness. MS tractor ploughing at night. CU pan ditto. GV cars past in darkness. CU clock reading nine o’clock. Pan motor-cyclist past in darkness. CU clock reading ten o’clock. GV Big Ben face reading 10.30 pm. MS ditto - lights on clock face go out. CU Big Ben clock mechanism. CU sign Fixed here 1859. CU Big Ben clock mechanism. CU ditto. MS ditto. MS men adjusting clock mechanism. MS ditto. MS & CUs ditto. LAS lights on clock face come on at 3 o’clock.
Keywords
Politics and government; Buildings and structures; Science and technology
Locations
London; England; Greenwich
Footage sources
Pathe
Card file number
93247
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Camera
Ronald E. Collins
Length of story (in feet)
197
Story extras:
Film clip

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'Time Will Tell', British Movietone News Issue No. 2020A, 22 Feb 1968. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/27264 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)