News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Cinegazette

Issue

Issue No.

6

Date Released

1950

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Made to Measure
• 2. Round and About
• 3. Power

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 3

Summary

NoS Summary - An exploration of electricity production and use in London Transport networks.
NoS synopsis: Electricity is used everywhere in London Transport networks, from signs to escalators to lights. This electricity is supplied by the power stations at Greenwich, Neasden and Lots Road. There small coal is loaded up and fed into furnaces. This burns, sends steam up the pipes and turns the turbines. The progress of this is measured on control panels in a vast control room.
We see a recreation of a power emergency, acted out by London Transport employees. Trolley buses are stopped by a sudden loss of power. The control room manages the problem and send out a repair vehicle. At the switch boxes around the route, engineers switch to an alternative supply so that the trolley buses can continue their journeys. Once the fault has been repaired at the substation, the boxes are switched back to their original settings.

Keywords

Transport; Motor vehicles

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases
Viewing Copy - London Transport Museum   Used for Synopsis
British Transport Films website
National Film Archive Catalogue

Credits:

Producer

Academy Picture Corporation

Commentator

Duncan Carse

Sponsor

London Transport Executive

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

London’s Transport Museum

Email

simon.murphy@ltmuseum.co.uk

Web

http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk

Phone

020 7379 6344

Fax

020 7565 7254

Address

39 Wellington Street
Covent Garden
London WC2E 7BB

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Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

For BFI National Archive enquiries:
nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk
For commercial/footage reuse enquiries:
footage.films@bfi.org.uk

Web

http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web

Phone

020 7255 1444

Fax

020 7580 7503

Address

21 Stephen Street
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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