Tube Takes No Travellers (1932)
Full titles read: The Tube that takes no travellers. Deep below London s streets, and stretching 6 1, 2 miles from Whitechapel to Paddington, runs the most unique Tube in the the Post Office Robot London. M, S of one of the robot trains going slowly past a platform as men wheel trolleys along. A train goes speeding off through the tunnel. Great pointofview shot taken from one of the mail trains as it stops at a platform; men take off one crate in front of us and load another one on. A man pulls a lever and the train starts off. Some men empty bags of mail onto a conveyor belt. A man in the Switch Cabinet answers a telephone and flicks switches on a control board that control the tracks of the system. Various shots of men sorting the bags of mail on a platform and wheeling crates onto the train. Good shot of the train speeding around a curve in the tunnel. FILM A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT S FULL OF GREAT D
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