The Big Pump Crawl Aka The Big Pump-Crawl (1956)

Various. Images of petrol shortages induced by the Suez crisis. GV. Cars assembled waiting for petrol. GV. Garages with cars lined up to go in. TV. First car at pump and long line behind it. CU. Sign ’Sorry Regular Customers Only Please’. CU. Petrol being put into car from pump. CU. Pump face coming up to register one gallon - at the end of the scene slip pan. GV. Down roadway showing cars lined up. Camera pans to show garage where there is a Cleveland tanker standing in the garage. TV. Line of cars waiting at garage. Pan to garage where people are being served. CU. Sign reading ’Sorry Petrol Quota Sold for the Day’. CU. Two men pushing car away because it has no petrol. GV. Loch long with ship tanker called the British Realm coming up. SV. Bow of British Realm. LV. Pan along British Realm as she nears quayside. SV. Large hoses are hoisted aboard ready for transporting oil from ship. Onboard ship men attaching hose for pumping oil to storage tank on land, camera pans along the pipes showing them runni