British Rail Goes Jet Set

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2054A
Date Released
17 Oct 1968
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 5
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: British Rail Goes Jet Set. DESCRIPTION: Amid an extravagance of Gothic architecture, St Pancras celebrates its centenary. But next door, Euston celebrates something more vital to present day travel - a new Fifteen million pound terminus, opened by the Queen. It allows todays rail travellers to share some of the amenities accepted as normal by the Jet Set. SHOTLIST: GV St. Pancras Station. LAS ditto. LAS zoom in ditto. MS entrance of station. GV interior of station. MCU sign The Botterley Company - Derbyshire 1867. LAS pan shields above St. Pancras Station. GV pan up St. Pancras Station. GV St. Pancras Station. GV new Euston Station. GV pan interior Euston Station. LAS woman on escalator. GV interior station. GV Queen alights from train to open station. MS Queen and official party walking through station. MS crowd. MS Queen unveils plaque. GV ticket counter. MS man buying ticket. MCU girls legs as she alights from escalator. Montage sequence of signs. MS pan Railway cafeteria. MS pan kitchen. MS cooking apparatus. GV interior station.
Keywords
Commemorations; Buildings and structures; Food and cooking; Railways; Celebrations and festivals; Ceremonies
Locations
London; United Kingdom; St Pancras; Euston
Card file number
93992
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Camera
Maurice Ford
Camera
Roy Page
Length of story (in feet)
156
Story extras:
Film clip

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'British Rail Goes Jet Set', British Movietone News Issue No. 2054A, 17 Oct 1968. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/27591 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)