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)