Stage Coaches (1961)

Central London. High angle shot of a busy London street, a red double-decker drives past. Medium top shot of cars in a traffic jam. M/S of a red double-decker turning a corner. Luton, Bedfordshire. M/S of a ’Curricle’ carriage pulled by two white horses riding towards the camera. Panning shot of the carriage being driven by a young woman in tweed, Christine Mossman. C/U of Christine, panning shot to a man in a top hat, John Dick, sitting in the back of the carriage. Point of view shot, taken from the driver’s seat, of the two white horses. M/S of the carriage riding around the field. L/S of a large coach pulled by two black horses driving around the field past several parked carriages. M/S of the same coach riding towards the camera. Panning shot of a little girl, Marilyn Lemmons, driving a cart pulled by a goat past a row of parked carriages - “goat carts were used a lot for delivering milk“. M/S of a stagecoach parked next to an old disused double-decker bus, panning shot to a dilap
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