1, 700 Feet Below The Mersey (1928)

Full titles read: 1, 700 feet below the Mersey Lord Mayors of Liverpool Birkenhead greet each other after last partition of Â5, 000, 000 Tunnel is broken The Mersey Tunnel, Merseyside. M, S of a group of men and women walking down a wooden stairway, dressed in sou westers and rain hats. M, S of them waving handkerchiefs at us as they stand in an open lift, going down; the Lady Mayor of Liverpool, Miss Margaret Bevan, is one of them. M, S shows a man in a sou wester standing at a rock face in a tunnel; he starts hacking away with a pickaxe. Cut to M, S of Margaret Bevan shaking hands with the Mayor of Birkenhead through the hole in the rock face the Mersey Tunnel is broken through (The Mayors have their chains on over their sou westers. ) M, S of the two Mayors pose for the camera with another gentleman; they all have their hands joined on something I can t quite make out a pickaxe Brief shot of the other gentleman making a speech as the Mayors stand beside him; we can see the fa