Comparisons in Comfort
Series
- Series Name
- Cinegazette
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 7
- Summary
- NoS synopsis: A brief history of the bus from the 1829 Shillibeer model (displayed with an actor and horses), via a knife-board with a shire horse to a 1947 petrol bus - the RT3. A new eight-foot wide skeleton for the RT is then shown being tested on the road.
- Keywords
- Vehicles; Transport; Horses; Motor vehicles; Road transport; History and archaeology
- Written sources
- British Film Institute Databases
Viewing Copy - London Transport Museum Used for synopsis
British Transport Films website
Film User Vol.2 No.26 December 1948, p704.
- Credits:
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- Producer
- Academy Picture Corporation
- Sponsor
- London Transport Executive
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Film Archive
- Name
- London’s Transport Museum
- simon.murphy@ltmuseum.co.uk
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- Address
- 39 Wellington Street
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- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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London W1T 1LN - Notes
- The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).
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How to cite this record
'Comparisons in Comfort', Cinegazette Issue No. 1, 1947. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/349245 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)