DOING AWAY WITH TRAM LINES, EDINBURGH
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Title: DOING AWAY WITH TRAM LINES, EDINBURGH
Reference number: 7236
Date: 1956
Sound: silent
Original format: 16mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 1.26 mins
Description:
Lifting tram lines in Princes Street, Edinburgh to make way for buses.
See also ref. 6028
Shotlist:
Shot of various signs, Road Works Ahead, Diversion Ahead, Road Closed (0.07) Left to right panning shot of street (overexposed) (0.21) Long shot of workers digging up setts in the road (0.32) Pedestrians crossing gap in road on a makeshift footbridge (0.40) very long shot of road – pans down to show traffic conductor – paving equipment and road being paved, steam roller – men watching paving (1.01) road roller, shot of road being paved (1.08) Shot of Princes Street – road being filled and paved – left to right pan of street (1.26)