The Elephant Will Never Forget
Series
- Series Name
- Cinegazette
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- BTF synopsis: Trams in London are a thing of the past - buses have taken over - but many Londoners, and especially the Cockneys, will always remember them with affection, and in song. The film, completed in London’s ‘Last Tram Week’, takes you round the streets of South London and along the Embankment with two Cockneys who remember a song about trams they sang in the music halls fifty years ago. Finally, 20,000 Londoners cheer and sing their goodbyes to the trams which for ninety-one years had rattled and clanged their way past - particularly through the colourful and lively part of South London near the Elephant & Castle.
- Keywords
- Vehicles; Road transport; History and archaeology
- Written sources
- British Film Institute Databases
British Transport Films website Used for synopsis
Film User Vol.8 No.93 July 1954, p334.
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Brewster Mason
- Production Co.
- British Transport Films
- Camera
- Cyril Moorehead
- Producer
- Edgar Anstey
- Director
- John Krish
- Support services
- John Krish
- Sponsor
- London Transport Executive
- Camera
- Robert Paynter
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- London’s Transport Museum
- simon.murphy@ltmuseum.co.uk
- Web
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- 020 7565 7254
- Address
- 39 Wellington Street
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- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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- 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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How to cite this record
'The Elephant Will Never Forget', Cinegazette Issue No. 12, 1953. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/349277 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)