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DetailsOriginal Format: Standard 8 Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 10 mins 16 secs
Subject: EDUCATION ENTERTAINMENT / LEISURE SCIENCE / TECHNOLOGY TRAVEL
Summary This is a film of students from Odsal House School for the deaf in Bradford on a trip to London, probably part of film 5123.
Description
This is a film of students from Odsal House School for the deaf in Bradford on a trip to London, probably part of film 5123.
The film begins with a map of London Underground and an animated title – London.
Pupils and teachers emerge from a junior school, Odsal House School for the deaf Bradford, and are waved off by the other teachers and children form the infant school. They get on a bus and arrive at Bradford Exchange railway Station and get a train which passes through Doncaster Railway...
This is a film of students from Odsal House School for the deaf in Bradford on a trip to London, probably part of film 5123.
The film begins with a map of London Underground and an animated title – London.
Pupils and teachers emerge from a junior school, Odsal House School for the deaf Bradford, and are waved off by the other teachers and children form the infant school. They get on a bus and arrive at Bradford Exchange railway Station and get a train which passes through Doncaster Railway station. The front cover of the News Chronicle I Spy Number 11 "The Sights of London" is shown. They feed the pigeons in Trafalgar Square, where a girl has a cine camera, and there are some of the pigeons settling on the children.
Intertitle – The Palace
The school children wander around the outside of the Palace making notes, one of the boys holding a cine camera. They watch a changing of the guard and a parade.
Intertitle – The Tower
The visit the Tower of London, again watching the Queen's Guards, and ravens on the lawns outside the Queen’s House. They take a boat ride along the Thames, passing St Paul’s, the South Bank and visiting Downing Street. The film shows many of the electric advertisements in Soho, including one for the film The Magnificent Seven.
Intertitle – Windsor
Again the Queen's Guards march past as they do a tour of the Castle.
Intertitle – London Airport, with animations and the film ends.