Fuel Crisis - UK (1947)

London. CU of a man in barber’s shop being given a shave by torch light. CU. Electric fire with man’s feet in slippers warming up next to it. Fire suddenly goes out. Pan down one of the chimneys of Battersea power station to a building and along building to show coal sliding down chute onto a heap. Pan along heaps of coal. More shots of the chimneys, crane at work with scoop shovel swinging around, heaps of coal, etc. Information found in the old record - Cuts 47/14. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content f