Standard Time AKA Permanent Summer Time… 1968

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No title. Standard time - permanent summer time begins.

Greenwich & Big Ben, London.

L/S River Thames, pan to the Greenwich Observatory. C/U 24-hour clock at the gate of the Observatory. Extreme C/U ditto. C/U ditto.

Angle shot Big Ben clock on Westminster Palace showing...

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Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
50825
Sort Number:
68/016
Time in/Out:
01:02:00:00 / 01:03:11:00
Canister:
68/16
Film ID:
2055.02
Issue Date:
22/02/1968

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