Taxi Drivers’ Outing

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2252
Date Released
31 Jul 1972
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
4 / 6
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Taxi Drivers’ Outing. DESCRIPTION: Every year some of London’s taxi drivers take children for a day at the seaside. There to greet them was Jimmy Saville. SHOTLIST: SV taxi loaded with balloons pan to kids getting in. SV taxi driver taking picture of kids in taxi. CU young girl blowing up balloon. CU taxi driver ditto. SV kids into taxi. CU taxi driver wearing straw hat with windmill attached. SV more kids into taxi. GV long line of taxis down main road to Southend. SV pan taxis driving pan to Southend signpost. CU pan balloon laden taxi. 2 GVs taxis driving along Southend promenade. GV BV taxis along front. 4 SVs taxis drawing up at Kursaal. Jimmy Saville helping kids out of taxi, group of kids with drivers. LS kids and taxi drivers down water-shoot. SV another car down water-shoot. SV kids and drivers musical horse roundabout in background. SV kids and drivers in dodgems. SV drivers with escorts walking to camera.
Keywords
Entertainment and leisure; Vehicles; Children; Social welfare
Locations
London; Southend-on-Sea
Card file number
98330
Credits:
Camera
David Allan
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
119
Story extras:
Film clip

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'Taxi Drivers’ Outing', British Movietone News Issue No. 2252, 31 Jul 1972. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/29493 (Accessed 19 Jun 2025)