Aberfan Today (1967)

No title - Lord Alfred Robens National Coal Board Chairman offers resignation after tribunal report on Aberfan disaster. London and Wales. C/U sign ’National Coal Board’. M/S Hobart House with people outside. C/U newspaper placard ’Roben’s crucial day’. M/S of his secretaries looking through letters urging him not to resign. M/S letters. L/S press waiting. M/S of him talking to them about his resignation. L/S tips overlooking Aberfan. M/S of the tips. M/S where the landslide occurred. M/S tip, pull out to show houses in foreground. M/S’s houses on ’Bryntaf’, a street which lost 19 children in the disaster. Various shots of the houses. C/U grave with two crosses. Pan across the children’s graves. C/U cross. C/U epitaph on stone. L/S of the graves. C/U flower bowl with inscription ’Dear Grandson Aged 10.’ C/U flowers. C/U stone with inscription ’From Mam and Dad’. C/U flowers. C/U stone which reads ’Darling David from Nan and Gramp’. C/U stone which reads ’Christine’. C/U flowers. L/S looking out across
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