On the Run 1952-1953
16mm film negative Black & White Silent 1953 5:49
Summary: Amateur drama film
Title number: 4427
LSA ID: LSA/6040
Description: Title card reads "Vava Club". Flashing text in imitation of a nightclub sign.
Daytime street scenes of post-war London. Man looks across street with small crowd outside Continental Stores. Cars drive past. Four servicemen walk towards the camera, Scottish soldiers walk away and man walks arm in arm with woman in army uniform. In the background doorman stands outside Sackville Club. Man in a hat and glasses stares into shop window at a display of bottles (filmed from inside the shop looking out to the street. Narrow street view with church in the background (possibly St Margaret Pattens). Camera pans back down street, briefly looking over top of lamppost before settling on small sign reading Soho. Children run towards the camera outside a newsagent. Filmed from a low level.mothers with prams. Night club scenes, drinking, smoking, dancing. Close up of drummer. Street scenes, newsagent
Further information: Sackville Club on Fenchurch Street opened September 1938. Club owned by Eddie Grossbart and his wife. They sold the venue in 1971.
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