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United Kingdom Of Great Britain Pt. 1 of 2

Reel Number: 221411-04

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1960s,1964

Country: England,Northern Ireland UNITED KINGDOM,Scotland,United Kingdom,Wales

Location: belfast,London

TC Begins: 20:36:13

TC Ends: 20:47:51

Duration: 00:11:38

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Pt. 1 of 2 High pan across industrial town w/ rows of houses. VO “this is an island nation...” power plant, train past in FG - smoking chimneys. River thru rural village. Houses of Parliament, Big Ben chiming. “England is an old country”. CU Tower Bridge. Welsh industrial plant - Scottish lowlands - Northern Irish farming scenes. Animated globe w/ zoom in on Britain, superimposes outline of New York & Pennsylvania to compare size. 20:38:27 Stonehenge, MLS & CUs. Hadrian’s Wall. VO “Yes, it is an old country”. North Sea waves crashing on shore. Animated map showing climate w/ North Atlantic drift. Aerials of farmland & village. Cattle grazing. Combine harvester thru wheat field. Teenager bundling wheat. Potato harvest scenes - VO re reliance on imports. 20:41:36 Grocery store, women shopping for groceries - VO “when a housewife goes shopping she buys almost as much foreign food as that produced by her own country” - zoom in on assistant at cash register - CUs imported food - Danish Lurpack Butter - Danepak Bacon. “But how does the country pay for it all?” 20:41:54 Car manufacturing plant. Map of UK showing industrial centers. Aerial of coal mining community. Underground coal mining scenes, machine cutting thru coal seam in tunnel roof. Freight cars filled w/ coal along railway track. Iron ore processing - steel making plant w/ shots of control room. CUs steel batches w/ international destinations painted on them. Rolling machines. Top shot rows of terraced worker houses next to railroad goods yard. Car making. 20:44:49 Tracking shot thru large factory w/ female workers assembling electrical equipment. Car production line at Jaguar plant, engine fitted; car shell on conveyor - workers fitting wooden dashboard, steering wheel, leather seats & finished Jaguar off production line. Tractor factory - worker gets tea from dispensing machine - pan to production line. 20:46:07 Shipyard scenes - Belfast. Workers up ladder & constructing ship. VO “The United Kingdom has always been overpopulated” - animated map of emigration to British colonies & immigration - map fades into Union Jack. Travelogues; Tourism; Farming / Agriculture; Trade & Industry; Society; Europe; Economics; Daily Life; 1960s; Great Britain; United Kingdom; NOTE: Any continuous 11 minutes of entire film 20:36:13 - 20:57:44 (2 cards) sold for per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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