| MULTI-DECK GARAGE (aka SPIRAL GARAGE) A visit to the first multi-storey car park in the country | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6032 |
| Catalog #: | 123042 | |
| Clip Number: | 123042-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | CP 322 | |
| Timecode: | 01:11:40 - 01:13:09 | |
| Location: | Bristol, Avon | |
| Year Shot: | 1961 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | BUILDINGS: Misc LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England TRANSPORTATION: Garages, Car Parks | |
| Description: | MULTI-DECK GARAGE (aka SPIRAL GARAGE) A visit to the first multi-storey car park in the country L/S and M/S of exterior of a multi-storey car park in Bristol, Avon; traffic is seen passing by. Commentator tells us this is the first of it's kind in the country. A grey car, a small Wolseley, turns into the car park and stops at a booth where a helpful man in a white coat puts a ticket under the windscreen wiper, and hands one to the driver; another man stands in the booth. M/S inside the car park (very dark) as the car drives round what the commentator calls "the unbroken curved roadway". He goes on to enlighten us thus: "The idea is that the car goes up the gradient and the driver down again by lift". Our driver finds a space and gets out of his car. L/Ss of the Bristol skyline from the car park edge; commentator says "It's almost worth coming to the top just for the view". M/S of a man walking back to his car and driving off. M/S from inside his car as he drives down the circular exit route at a tremendous speed (I feel quite giddy - I think this sequence has been speeded up!). He hands his ticket to the man in white at the booth (no money is seen changing hands!) and zooms off onto the road, narrowly avoiding a pedestrian; fade out. | |
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