.Title card - ‘The Electricity People’ within a logo (outline of a house). Intertitle - ‘A film depicting the organisation and structure of the electricity supply industry in England and Wales’. A town hall is shown. A committee meeting is shown in progress inside. Mr Chapman (owner of a hardware store), enters and sits down at the table, last to arrive. Other people who live or work in the neighbourhood (who play a part in public life), are also sat around the table, along with two...

.Title card - ‘The Electricity People’ within a logo (outline of a house). Intertitle - ‘A film depicting the organisation and structure of the electricity supply industry in England and Wales’. A town hall is shown. A committee meeting is shown in progress inside. Mr Chapman (owner of a hardware store), enters and sits down at the table, last to arrive. Other people who live or work in the neighbourhood (who play a part in public life), are also sat around the table, along with two electricity district managers. Sales assistants are shown demonstrating electrical products in a showroom. The Electricity Board district offices are shown. A lady chooses a specific file from a bookshelf of files and sits at a desk. The engineers room is shown; engineers are sitting at desks. Some workmen are shown moving an electrical pipe along a dug up pavement. House electronics are shown. Industry electronics and machinery are shown. A map depicts all the different areas covered by different electricity boards in England and Wales. Landscape shots show different parts of the country. The South West Electricity Board headquarters building is shown. A billing department office is shown, with staff all sat at desks using typewriters. Stored appliances are shown. An electric blanket is being tested for approval by a machine. The kitemark logo is shown on a kettle. Rural areas and a helicopter flying above power lines is shown. A man pumps milk from a cow with electrical equipment. A board room meeting of a consultative council is shown. The exterior of the Central Electricity Generating Board exterior is shown. A map of England and Wales shows how the Central Electricity Generating Board operates in different regions, with 230 different power stations marked. A coal-fired power station is shown near some coal fields. Oil-fired power stations are marked on the map. The exterior of an oil-fired station is shown. Nuclear power stations are marked out on the map. An exterior of a nuclear station is shown. Hydroelectric power stations are marked out on the map. A network of power lines - ‘The National Grid’, is marked on the map. Power lines and pylons are shown, followed by an exterior of a grid sub-station. A bedside lamp is shown being turned off. Silhouetted pylons are shown. Eggs and bacon cooking in a pan is shown. Interiors of factories and generating stations are shown. A man looks out of his house windows. Plug socket switches are then shown being turned on. Interiors of the National Grid control room are shown. Staff are examining weather reports and the radio/tv times to predict power surges in electricity. A control engineer calls other control centres. Landscape architects are shown chatting over a model table which shows scaled down electrics/pylons, and plans for a new substation. Nuclear generation development experiments are shown, with interiors of the lab at Glouceshire. Interiors of the station at Surrey are shown, where experiments are taking place to find the safe minimum distance between conductors. A diagram overlays a map; the diagram shows the different regions of the Generating Board, the twelve districts of the Distributing Boards, all under the Electricity Council. Another diagram shows the organisation of a council meeting at a round table. It includes three members from the Generating Board, the Chairman of the Council, two Deputy Chairmen, three independent members, and the twelve Chairmen of the area boards. An agenda document is shown on a diagram which reads: ‘Agenda 1. Finance Estimates 2. Research Programme 3. Industrial Relations 4. Commercial Policy’ Exteriors of power stations, transmission lines and substations are shown, followed by shots of consumers, including children playing in a garden. The exterior headquarters of the Electricity Council in London is shown, followed by interiors of a council meeting in progress. A montage of different employees in the Electricity industry is shown. Researchers are shown working at desks. A lady is shown using her washing machine; there is a close-up of an electricity recording machine in her house, which is part of an experiment. A cooking hob is turned on. A log of electricity usage is printed out at a research office. Exteriors and interiors show more experiments being carried out at the Cheshire research centre. At a different research centre, a researcher is shown moving around plants in plant pots. A man is shown lifting a bonnet on his car. A one-to-one meeting between an industry staff member and a member of the public at a desk is shown. An electricity exhibition/conference is shown - different electrical products are displayed and books are laid out on a table. Examples of electricity being used at home and in industry are shown. A committee meeting is shown, which ends and members leave. Credits- ‘The Sponsors and Producers gratefully acknowledge the help of all who have collaborated in the production of this film, which has been made by THE ELECTRICITY COUNCIL on behalf of:’ Rolling credits- ‘Central Electricity Generating Board London Electricity Board South Eastern Electricity Board Southern Electricity Board South Western Electricity Board Eastern Electricity Board East Midlands Electricity Board Midlands Electricity Board South Wales Electricity Board Merseyside and North Wales Electricity Board Yorkshire Electricity Board North Eastern Electricity Board North Western Electricity Board’ Credits- ‘Produced by Denis Ward Directed by Terrick Fitzhugh Photographed by Charles French Edited by Peter Heffron Diagrams by Charles Legg (Guild Animation Ltd.) Commentary spoken by Michael Aspel Technical and Scientific Film Ltd. (in association with the Film Producers Guild)’