People Plus Leisure Equals (1968)

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  • Release Date: 1st January 1968
  • Asset ID: 802389
  • Synopsis: BBC2 Trade Test film A film about pollution and it's effects on the leisure industry. Locations include, Central London, East London, Lee Valley, Stone Henge, Birmingham, Norfolk Broad, North Scotland and Drake's Island in Plymouth.
  • Shotlist: 10:00:00 GVs small group of people swimming in lake. Overlay caption 'A National Benzole Film, In the National Heritage series'. 10:00:49 LS Girl playing on waste ground overlay caption 'People +… 10:00:54 HA Man on boat lifting baby up. Overlay caption… 'Leisure'. Cross dissolve to GVs Stone Henge. VO commences 'In twenty thousand years man has changed his way of living…' 10:01:37 GVs HA XLS Oxford Circus very busy with Route Masters and shoppers. 10:01:50 GVs public in city or town centre. 10:02:11 Int. spray paint applied to car in factory assembly line. 10:02:28 Copy typers in office typing on typewriters. 10:03:15 Ext. Commuters rushing around at end of day in London. 10:03:38 Int. Swimming pool, young men and woman diving into pool from platforms. Cut to underwater, man in 20s entering water. 10:03:52 Trav. LS Jet Skier. 10:04:13 GVs children playing on swings in park. 10:04:25 GVs busy British beach could be Bournemouth or South End - on - Sea beach. 10:04:32 XLS Sunday pub football matches could be on Hackney Marshes. 10:04:53 LS young girls (late teens) on Horses in The Countryside. 10:05:15 MLS Man (40s) fishing by pond. GVs Birmingham Angling Association members fishing by small river during a contest. 10:05:46 GVs sailing craft on river. 2 person boats mingle on river. 10:06:00 GVs golf practice on range. 10:06:42 Int. CU Golf balls in factory being cleaned by a machine. 10:07:03 MS maggots man attending to maggots. 10:07:25 GVs motor factory. 10:07:53 GVs petrol station. 10:07:55 GVs Library. 10:08:05 CA Booklets on Countryside in 1971. 10:08:19 Aerial XLS Thames London Bridge Sunny Day. 10:08:45 CU Aerial Tate Chimney bellowing smoke. 10:09:06 2 Children play bank side near smoke bellowing power station, could be Battersea Power Station. 10:09:08 GVs bank side derelict disrepair throughout. 10:10:18 GVs group of people play near Tower Bridge bank side. 10:10:48 GVs Putney Bridge. Rowers Boating. Aerial shots of The Thames and Battersea Power Station. 10:11:35 CU Trav. reeds on water. Norfolk Broad overcast day. Jet Skiers boats sailing by little bungalows along shore. 10:12:48 GVs canoes and river boats. 10:14:50 GVs Car park and pic nic sites on river edge and traffic jam. 10:16:45 LS Two boys (10) climb over car could be black cab taxi. 10:17:16 GVs public bathing in Trafalgar Square and Embankment. 10:17:32 GVs inner city football match. 10:18:33 GVs skiers in North Scotland Glennorth Forest Park (sp?). Ski toes and lifts. 10:19:22 GVs Abbeymore (sp?) ski lifts and country side. 10:20:06 LS Campers unpacking tent. Coylumbridge Hotel. 10:20:20 Remote part of glen offspring bird in trees on nest all ages people watching on with binoculars. 10:21:05 XLS HA Pan L to R Abbeymore centre. 10:21:21 LS Spryside Theatre. 10:21:23 Int. Woman and daughter swimming. 10:21:44 Ext. Artificial ski slope and fly fishing. 10:22:07 GVs Horseriders riding horses in town centre. VO talks about how unpredictable the then future of leisure is. 10:22:26 Huge empty Scottish plain. 10:23:01 Train tracks. Man and woman walk along, backs to camera. 10:23:33 Drake's Island, Plymouth South. XLS Pan R to L. Summers day. Trav. Fortress on Drake's Island, Plymouth. Men clear rubble near Fortress. 10:24:16 HA LS Canoes coming up to shore. 10:24:21 LS Worker rock climbs down rock face. 10:24:46 East London. Lee Valley. Aerial of park area in development, suburb area. 10:25:52 Man plants tree in tree nursery. 10:26:23 MS Man on Artificial ski slope struggling. 10:26:32 Motorbike race watched on by spectators. 10:26:45 BCU Golf ball being hit. Cut to LS Golf session by women. 10:27:00 Aerial of Lee Valley. 10:27:30 CU Canoe operator. CU Swans cleaning feathers. Cut to LS Swans on lake and 6 people watching on. 10:27:54 LS Concert in park area. More Aerial shots continue. 10:28:22 MS 3 children stroke Donkey or Giraffe. 10:28:46 GVs commuters busy city street. Overlay '55 To 70 Million' '10Million To 30 Million' VO talks about increases in people and motor vehicles. END OF TAPE.
  • Production Company: None
  • Licensing Restrictions: None
  • Viewing Restrictions: Public
  • Format: BetaSP_Small
  • Alternative Language Notes: None