Made by Dennis Leather, a member of Vixen Films and the Stocksbridge Cine Club, this is a film of a trip to London.  They visit some film studios, London Zoo, Oxford Circus and other places, and also feed pigeons and squirrels. People are on board a coach, parked opposite a beer lorry with ‘London, Yorkshire, Midlands’ written on it.  A couple of men stand in front of a red Routemaster, number 224, for Laleham.  They do a tour of a film studio where they look at some of the props and a set is...

Made by Dennis Leather, a member of Vixen Films and the Stocksbridge Cine Club, this is a film of a trip to London.  They visit some film studios, London Zoo, Oxford Circus and other places, and also feed pigeons and squirrels. People are on board a coach, parked opposite a beer lorry with ‘London, Yorkshire, Midlands’ written on it.  A couple of men stand in front of a red Routemaster, number 224, for Laleham.  They do a tour of a film studio where they look at some of the props and a set is being built.  There is a false front for a shop, ‘Jake’s jewellery and drugs’.  They walk around a town set for a cowboy production, including ‘Belle’s Place’ and the ‘Mid -Western Union Cable Office’.  Following the studio tour, the group moves onto the riverside where boats are moored on the Thames. They continue to see the sites including a busy Oxford Circus, showing the John Lewis store.  It shows shoppers walk up and down Oxford Street.  A car has crashed into a traffic sign. The tour continues onto Trafalgar Square, Westminster and Parliament Street, with the cenotaph and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office flying all the flags of the Commonwealth.  A lawn is covered in rows of small crosses and poppies as a commemoration to those who died in war.  A couple of Chelsea pensioners walk by.  Post Office Tower is seen in the distance, and there are squirrels pinching food from a bag left on a park bench in St James’s Park.  A man feeds a squirrel, which clings to his hand while fighting off the pigeons.  Nearby a woman and child sit on a bench where they feed the pigeons and two men sit in deckchairs reading. A pigeon feeds from a woman’s hand. Now at London Zoo, there are flamingos, crocodiles, and Pipaluk, the new-born (1.12.67) polar bear.   There are wild sheep, grizzly bears and other animals.  A boy has a ride on a camel.  Then follows lions, ostriches, rhinos etc.. Small girls are sitting on the fence, looking at the coypus. Children gather around a playful young elephant.  They look at many more animals. They then visit a display of old light aircraft before going to Piccadilly Circus, highlighting some women in miniskirts.  After Piccadilly Circus, the group moves onto feed pigeons in Trafalgar Square, with the pigeons sitting on some of the people feeding them.  They then watch the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, and many other tourists have gathered as well.  In the evening they show the lights in Soho, mainly the advertisements, and a neon theatre sign for ‘The Knack’, and the film comes to an end. Title – The End