RONAN POINT FLATS CHANGED TO ELECTRICITY Council High-Rise Safety Measures
	Tape Master:	5029
	Catalog #:	364820
	Clip Number:	364820-1
	Orginal Film:	68/68
	Timecode:	01:33:50 - 01:35:06
	Location:	Ronan Point, London
	Year Shot:	1968 (Actual Year)
	Audio:	Yes
	Color:	No
	Headings:	BUILDINGS: Apartments/Flats BUILDINGS: Skyscraper CITY PLANNING: Housing DISASTERS: Collapses & Cave-Ins INDUSTRY/POWER & ENERGY: Electricity INDUSTRY/POWER & ENERGY: Natural Gas LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, London
	Description:	ELECTRICITY NOT GAS FOR SKYSCRAPER FLATS After part of a highrise public housing project building collapsed and killed 5; preventive measures taken. Skyscraper flats changed from gas to electricity after part of one collapsed. Ronan Point, London M/S debris being cleared away from base of Ronan flats after part of it collapsed. Pan up to show the collapsed part. Various shots debris being cleared away. Cranes, bulldozers and other construction equipment and men working. Some men wearing hardhats. CU Hardhat guys shovelling, big pile of debris and rubble. Workers on top of piles. Elevated shots of Ronan flats. M/S one of the blocks of flats. Interior M/S flat. Shot of two women and a child inside apartment on couch. One woman gives child to the other; gets up; exits room. Mrs Watson walks across room to kitchen. Woman in kitchen, she carries kettle to stove and turns on gas burner. C/U as she turns gas on under kettle, zoom in to gas jets. Exterior shots of gas man turning off gas supply outside. Bald man in yard at hole, turning off gas by turning T-shaped thing in the ground. M/S London Electricity van, pan to man wheeling electric cooker to flat. Young man pushing hand truck with large box - the new electrical appliances. Interior M/S housewife using new electric cooker installed by council. Woman fills a small pot with water and sets it over on her new electric stove; turns stove on. CU electric stove with pot on electric burner. Big L/S of London taken from the flats. DS city; looking toward river. DS out window of highrise; looking straight down. Big M/S Ronan Point flats.

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