Caught By The Camera No. 6 (1934)
Titles read: Caught By The Camera. Various locations. At Raglan Road Crossing in Monmouthshire we see a onewoman station. A woman comes out of a building and opens the level crossing gates. She is the Station Master for this tiny station and also the signal woman, level crossing keeper, booking clerk and porter. A onecarriage train pulls into the station; a woman holding a child waits on the platform. Various shots of an artist, Mr Ispen (sp ), writing a tiny dance programme in a grid the size of a stamp. He does this without the aid of a magnifying glass. Other pieces of miniature writing are shown; the Lord s Prayer the size of a sixpence and the same in six different languages, the size of a penny. In Reigate we see brief shots of people arriving at a countryside windmill for a church service. On the River Thames in London we see the view from a boat approaching Tower Bridge (the bridge is opening to let us through). We then see a small house near Tower Bridge and a plaque telling
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