SLATE INFORMATION: From Bethlehem to Somers Town

ENGLAND: London: St Pancras: Somers Town:
Church procession along at Somers Town:

SLATE: 'Bethlehem - the perfect home'

Children acting out play about the birth of Jesus: mother, father and baby depicting life in slum home: smoking chimneys of slum houses:

SLATE: To lower the standard of home life is to start the downfall of a nation.

Top Shot people and children about in street: slum homes:

SLATE: For eight years we have been building homes in Somers Town

Various shots of building of housing block underway:

Various shots of large city buildings interspersed with slogan 'Big Business comes to Somers Town'

TRACKING shots through streets of London: more shots of London buildings and work underway on housing block in Somers Town:

SLATE: This may spread

Cranes seen beyond slum houses:

SLATE: Somers Town must be preserved as a place of homes.

New housing block: statue of Mary and Jesus:

SLATE: The Opportunity

Close shot of letter offering to buy the properties

SLATE: 38,000 pounds

More shots of cranes, top shot of roofs of houses, typist typing at typewriter

SLATE: The only possible decision

Close Shot of letter informing of purchase of properties

SLATE: This involved purchase price 38,000 pounds / deposit paid / balance needed 22,000 pounds - and for what?

Various shots of Somers Town area intersperced with SLATE information

TRACKING SHOTS through Somers Town area

SLATE: Already we have done much

Shots of new housing block:

SLATE: We have built 217 flats

New housing block of flats and balconies

SLATE: And a nursery school for 40 children

Various shots of children in nursery school and in garden outside: children sleeping in camp beds:

SLATE: But we must do more

Close shot of letter purchasing more land

SLATE: A word of encouragement

Letter opened:

Graphicised sequence of Jesus on the cross with slogan beneath and local people at base of cross:

People about in street with Jesus on the cross montaged over

High Angle shot of new housing block: church procession along:

Credits
Background: St. Pancras House Improvment Society presents 'From Bethlehem to Somers Town' - The need for more houses expounded by drama and other, more documentary devices: