Speaking Traffic Signals (1949)

Unissued / Unused material. Speaking traffic signals. EMI factory, Hayes, Middlesex / Greater London. C/U a traffic light changing from amber to red, speaking apparatus seen fitted at side. C/U another shot of traffic signal. M/S group of people at pedestrian crossing. M/S as man walks forward and looks up at lights. C/U traffic lights changing to red. C/U Trevor Barlow (Director of speaking signals and Managing Director to EMI), pan to another man. C/U small boy and mother at crossing. M/S people crossing the pedestrian crossing. M/S car going across crossing. C/U man fixing sound apparatus to side of light. C/U as he takes out a length of magnetic tape from the sound apparatus. M/S people at side of crossing. M/S people looking to right and left before crossing road. M/S group of people crossing road. C/U traffic signal - ’Cross Now’. M/S old lady crossing road followed by two girls running across busy crossing. M/S back view of woman pushing pram and little girl crossing road. C/U traffic