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[Midland Montage: 22.12.1960: Here and There]

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Date 1960
Duration 00:02:00
Film type Black & White / Silent
Production Professional
Genre Television News
Company ATV
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Cinema Club item was first broadcast on Midlands News on 21 December 1960 (item 2968). The ABC cinema on Bristol Road was converted to show Cinerama films in 1963. It later became part of the Cannon chain and was closed and demolished in 1987. The bus Item was first broadcast on Midlands News 20 December 1960 (item 2966). Until the early 1970s the Fleetline bus was built by Daimler at a factory at Radford in Coventry. The example in this news item was the first built (registered 7000 HP). Fleetline buses were seen on the streets of Birmingham from 1962. Parks police item first broadcast on Midlands News 20 December 1960 (item 2965). The hillclimb item is from Midlands News 19 December 1960 (item 2963).

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Summary Four recent Midlands News items re-edited for Midland Montage: Children's party at cinema; new Daimler bus; parks police; and RAC hillclimb at Kinver.
Description 1. We see children attending a Christmas party at the ABC cinema on Bristol Road in Birmingham. Father Christmas is seen arriving outside in a vintage car with a banner advertising the ABC Minors (a children's club run by the ABC cinema chain). Inside we see ATV personality Jean Morton with a clown and someone dressed as Mickey Mouse and then a quick shot of children seated in the cinema. 2. A prototype Daimler Fleetline rear engined bus is seen on show at a bus depot in Birmingham. 3. A new dog patrol to combat hooliganism and vandalism in a park in Birmingham. We see a group of young people are seen running into an unidentifed park. After a close up of a 'Please Keep of the Grass' sign a park keeper is seen talking to them. The youths are next spotted playing football. A quick shot of another sign 'Parks Police' and then the youths are seen running away knocking over a bench as they go. The final shot is of the parks police officers with a dog wrestling a man to the ground. (It can be assumed that these shots were staged for the camera). 4. Drivers competing in an off road hill climbing event at Kinver. They are seen struggling up a steep and muddy hill.
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Tags Children, Cinema, Festivals, Intangible Cultural Heritage, Law Enforcement, Leisure Time Activities, Open Spaces, Social Problems, Sport, Vehicles

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