News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

478

Date Released

31 Jul 1930

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Something for the Kiddies - Tripping the Light Fantastic
• 2. Sun and Daughters!
• 3. Dunlop Sports Shoes - Watch them made at Liverpool
• 4. The House that Wasn’t - a fable of today

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 4

Summary

NoS Summary - A house facade that hides a railway cutting.
British Pathe synopsis: "Once upon a time a young man went to a London Taxi-driver and said in a loud voice - "Drive me to 23 Leinster Gardens." M/S of a taxi driver sitting on the running board of his cab talking to the young man. Taxi driver shakes his head. C/U of a piece of card upon which the address "23 Leinster Gardens, Bayswater" is written. The man gets into the back of the taxi and is driven off. "In the course of many moons, and countless traffic blocks, they reached the "house" - and the driver (who knew something) departed, enriched." M/S of man getting out of the taxi and paying the driver. "Steps, Door and Windows - but for all that "a house that never was" reads the intertitle. M/S of man standing in front of the door and looking up at the sign above the door which reads: "Leinster Garden Mansions." He tries to find a door bell or knocker with no luck. He turns and says something to his driver. C/U of the taxi driver who smiles a gap toothed smile and taps his head as if to suggest that the man is a bit mad. He drives off. L/S of the street, pan upwards. M/S of a the front of a building, pan upwards. "Behind - a mere shell, just one of the Underground’s little jokes - to hid a railway cutting!" High angle shot of railway tracks behind the facade. A train passes underneath. Camera tilts up to show our man standing on a bridge.

Keywords

Buildings and structures

Locations

London; England; Bayswater

Written sources

British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No.EP193 Used for synopsis
National Film Archive Catalogue

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