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Topical Budget 767-2: London's Strange New Mood (1926)
 

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"Everyone doing things they never did before". Idle passengers in a railway yard and a tube entrance showing the locked gates. Rows of vacant chairs in a park, and Rotten Row deserted. Shots of diminutive editions of the Daily Mirror, The Times, Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail, also special strike newspapers The British Gazette (the government-produced paper) and The British Worker (produced by the TUC). A2LO announcer sitting reading the news at a microphone.