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- TITLE: Within Glass Walls
- RELEASE DATE: 01/01/1960
- SYNOPSIS: Short Black and white film filmed on location at Castrol House, London c.1965
- BP ASSET ID: 803716
- VIEWING RESTRICTIONS: Public
- LICENSING RESTRICTIONS: Please note that this film may include footage and/or music sourced from multiple rights holders. For information on re-use of content in a new production, please contact BPVL@bp.com
- PRODUCTION COMPANY: Unknown
- COLOUR: B&W
- ALTERNATIVE LANGUAGE NOTES: None
- FORMAT: Other
- SHOTLIST: START 00:00:41 Exterior of Castrol House at night on a wet evening. 00:00:54 Man passing by reception of Castrol House. 00:01:02 Man entering lobby of Castrol House. 00:01:18 Receptionist showing and escorting man up the stairs. 00:01:51 Receptionist walks down stairs alone. 00:02:05 Receptionist swirls around and outfit transforms into a ball gown. 00:02:19 Man and woman dance on the stairs. 00:02:31 Man and woman dancing. 00:04:38 Man and woman walk down the stairs, man disappears. 00:04:49 Receptionist walks down the stairs in old outfit alone. 00:05:14 Man exits lift with a different woman and walks passed receptionist, and tips his hat. 00:05:47 End. Castrol House, on the corner of Balcombe Street and Marylebone Road, was completed in 1960, when it caused much comment for being London's first American-style curtain-walled office building. The inspiration was Lever House in New York. The building has been converted into flats and renamed Marathon House. Unconfirmed recollection: It was built many years before 1965 of course. The only memory of mine is just some trivia : It was featured in the opening sequence of Danger Man 1960 and also in Cliff Richard's film The Young Ones in 1961.