News on Screen

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2031

Date Released

6 May 1968

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Hullo Down There
• 2. Transplant Fails
• 3. Royalty Goes to the Dogs
• 4. Survival in Space
• 5. Follow the Salmon
• 6. Lions at the Party
• 7. Phantoms for Fleet Flyers

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 7

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Hello Down There. DESCRIPTION: A hundred feet below Holborn, the GPO’s London Underground Trunk Exchange, which handles up to two million calls a week. SHOTLIST: GV interior GPO Underground Trunk Exchange in London. CU telephone operator at work. BS another - ditto. CU ditto (x2). Trucking shot along new telephone exchange. MCU mass of telephone wires. MS GPO employees get off electric trolley. Trucking shot past telephone equipment in exchange. MS GPO technicians looking at equipment. LS ditto. MCU man operating tele-printer. CU telephone equipment in exchange. MS technician at work in exchange, on equipment. CU ditto. GV interior underground exchange.

Keywords

Communications; Science and technology

Locations

London; England; Holborn

Card file number

93480

Credits:

Commentator

Douglas Cameron

Camera

Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw

Length of story (in feet)

90

Story extras:

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