Parking's Practically A Crime (1958)

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Full title reads: "Parking's Practically A Crime".
Intertitle reads: "Motorists despair as police tighten regulations in congested cities".
London. Pathe questions the Capital's parking problems.
GV Piccadilly Circus deserted showing empty streets. GV Looking down another empty London street. SV Parking sign. GV Parking spaces in street. TS Mr Worthington driving Sunbeam Rapier up to Town, he raises hat as lorry passes TS Int. Car looking through windscreen. CU Mr Worthington driving. GV Crowded street. SV "Turn Left, One Way Only" sign. LV "No Right Turn". SV "No Entry" sign. GV Cars. LV 2 cars approaching parking space. SV They halt nose to nose. CU 2 drivers arguing as to who will give way.
LV Cars entering Poland St. Garage to park. CU Attendant telling driver there is no room. SV Car backs out and we see "Garage Full" sign. LS Pan from rooftop to cars parked on Garage roof. LV Mr. Worthington in among traffic. CU He wipes his forehead as he waits in line of traffic. SV Taxi-driver leans out of cab and says to Mr. Worthington "Nice little bus you got there Gov'nor". A car behind nudges Mr Worthington's motor. He turns around and says 'Who do you think you are ... Stirling Moss?'. Famous racing driver Stirling Moss leans out and replies 'Yes." The taxi driver says 'Tough luck Gov'nor'.LV Mr. Worthington pulling in beside kerb where there is space to put the car. GV St. Peter's School in Eton Square. SV Car parked outside school Exit. SV School children watching people with placards protesting against parking outside schools. LV Police driving away car which has been parked in forbidden area. Shots of police van towing away car and leaving constable behind, another car drives into the same place while the constable is not looking, the driver gets out and walks away, the constable turns round and sees the car. LV Shots of this car being towed away. SV Mr. Worthington speaking to the constable - his car has been towed away. GV Traffic coming round Marble Arch. GV Anamorphic (squeezed) Shots, buses going along street. GV Traffic going round Marble Arch. (Neg.)
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Пікірлер: 17

@JohnnyTurnerMusic 2 жыл бұрын

That Sir Stirling Moss cameo 🤣🤣

@flashstudiosguy 2 жыл бұрын

The thought of a Police Officer having a key to my car feels me with ease and concern at the same time..

@Jack_Russell_Brown 3 ай бұрын

I understand that in 1958, there were only 14 different keys for all General Motors cars. I don't have any information about British cars. In her autobiography, Shirley Temple Black tells of leaving a Hollywood nightclub and the parking valet brings up a Cadillac. She was quite a distance away when she saw a violin case on the back seat and realized it wasn't her Cadillac. The parking valet was quite relieved to have the car back.

@danwat1234 2 жыл бұрын

The Your Momma joke at the end haha.

@Seeker-wq8jc 9 ай бұрын

Some jokes are as old as time itself. It's funny how different the world is today, yet not as different as we think in some ways.

@danwat1234 9 ай бұрын

@@Seeker-wq8jc Yes indeed, you are a great writer..

@soto5622 9 ай бұрын

Police unlocks somebody's car and drives away.. So that's why Mr Bean used an additional lock on his Mini

@williamr3840 Жыл бұрын

Every time I've driven into London I've deeply regretted it. :0/

@robharding5345 Жыл бұрын

What a great city London was back then, I was a mere year old when this great old clip was made .

@K-Effect 2 жыл бұрын

Who do you think you are Sterling Moss?

@rafik5448 2 жыл бұрын

@ersoy47 8 ай бұрын

What have the years done to the British motor industry? that year car on the street was Rover Wosley Austin Humber, Hillman, Vauxhall, Ford, Jag, Morris, Bedford, etc. Now can hardly see a British build car on the roads, German, French, Japanese, S. Korean.

@Jack_Russell_Brown 3 ай бұрын

There's still Rolls-Royce. . . Oh, wait, I forgot, BMW!

@Makeyourselfbig 2 ай бұрын

They were too small to survive against the much bigger foreign producers. So they were absorbed into bigger firms and eventually those firms were sold to the same foreign producers. Also Ford is an American not British car maker and still builds cars in the UK.

@ersoy47 2 ай бұрын

@@Makeyourselfbig late 50s 60s 70 there wasn't to many foreign cars on British roads. compare this day hardly you can spot British car on the road or motorway. German, French, Korean, Japanese, some Italian.95 percent car on Britain is foreign. not just the car domestic use goods also foreign. Chinese took over all domestic goods, South Korean and Japanese teknoloji. I don't know what Britain produce to day. Any idea please let me know. I'm not talking military equipment.Every day uses.

@Sython6 2 ай бұрын

Some Honda's are built in Swindon still and Some Vauxhall's at Ellesmere port.