THE VISIT

GB
1959
35mins
Dir: Jack Gold
Starring: George Wood and Alice Spaul

A brief visit by a vivacious young couple makes a middle-aged spinster painfully aware of how drab and dull her life is

This short drama was produced by the British Film institute Experimental Film Fund and features a lingering opening shot looking down Ballantine Street in Wandsworth. At the bottom of the street, an electric train can be seen standing in Wandsworth Town station.

A view looking north down Ballantine Street in Wandsworth shows a train standing on the embankment at the bottom
This cropped image shows the electric train in finer detail