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3 High angle L.S. Crowd pushing. Two men in foreground holding a banner.
4 Railway yard completely deserted.
5 L.S. People standing about in front of railway station. A man, hands in pockets, walks slowly right to left.
6 L.S. Bus. A queue of people stretches away to left. Camera tracks slowly left along the enormous queue. Taxis pass in front of camera.
7 C.S. Sandwich-board man carrying airline advertisement placard.
8 F.S. Motor-car with aeroplane in background. Three men get out of car and straightaway board the plane. A dog jumps in after them.
9 Back of lorry. Policeman helping people to get on.
10 F.S. Lorry full of people.
11 F.S. Back of lorry, people mounting steps up to it.
12 F.S. Back of lorry starting to move away from camera. Golders Green station in background.
13 L.S. Docks deserted. slowly left.
Camera pans
14 L.S. People standing in front of boarded-up shops. Horse and cab pass in front of camera.
15 F.S. Two soldiers, back to camera, facing a crowd of people.
16 L.S. Tanks and military vehicles. Two soldiers leaning over railing waiting in foreground, back to camera.
17 Large title :
1,750,000 Unemployed.
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— Shorter hours ! 5 4
The only thing you could take as certain was —
— strikes. 6 I
All the trains stopped. Crowd voices fade out.
Low music begins. 6 10
People waited outside the stations for hours. —
— As for the buses, you couldn't 23 12 get on them for love or money — I tried both. Yes, they had a nice line in queues even in those days. —
— Of course they invited you 4 9 to go by aeroplane. —
— But aeroplanes weren't much 16 9 good to me — by the looks of them, they weren't much good to anybody ! Anyway, I never wanted to go farther than Brixton. —
■ — And then, to crown it all, the 6 9 buses stopped —
3
— and we had to ride in lorries The wind blew —
2 6
— from Golders Green right 6 I up the Old Kent Road.
Then up at Liverpool, the 8 4 dockers came out.
The shops were all boarded 6 10 up and the Government called in the Army.
Things began to look very 6 9 nasty.
Even without strikes, there 6 8 were enough people doing nothing. On the cue "... doing nothing," music rises to a sudden crescendo.
The shots of this sequence are more or less homogeneous in character, which makes the editing comparatively simple ; they show various aspects of the scene up and down the country and
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