Scotland Yard Moves (1967)

No title - Scotland Yard moves to new building. Various shots of the old building. C/U sign ’Metropolitan Police Commissioner’s Office’. Interior L/S Commissioner’s office. C/U portrait of Lord Trenchard who used to hold the office. C/U current Commissioner Sir Joseph Simpson looking out of window. L/S view out of window. M/S’s as police motorcyclists drive up road to old building. Interior shots of telephone room with long row of switchboard operators taking calls. M/S policemen taking calls and putting details on conveyor belt to be radioed to police cars. L/S room of maps detailing crimes. Pan across the criminal records and fingerprints room. C/U’s man looking at fingerprints through a magnifier. M/S looking at palm prints. L/S old records room with men at work filing or bringing out the records. M/S piles of records more are wheeled along in a trolley. Various shots men packing files into tea chest. C/U chest full of files. M/S chairs stacked one on the other. Various shots as cabinet is loaded