Description: Outline of the film: 'The City at night....a police car tours the almost empty streets, torches flash as they test the security of banks, offices and Guildhall itself. From this dramatic opening, the camera's eye takes us to Billingsgate and Smithfields market, to the morning commuter influx from railway termini and across London Bridge, and to the new tower blocks of flats in the Barbican, soon to be joined by an Arts Centre of world importance. On to merchant banks, Roman antiquities and Guildhall again - the meeting place of the Common Council, a model for parliaments since Saxon times; and the Livery Companies, almost as old, who elect the Lord Mayor, whom we see actually taking up the symbols of office in the 'Silent Change' ceremony. Suddenly we are in the hurly-burly of the Commodity Exchanges and Lloyds, the world famous insurance market; now we are in Burnham Beeches, one of the several 'open spaces' run by the Corporation of London; and now on the River Thames, for the Corporation also looks after the health of the Port of London Authority area. Back in the Square Mile, we see the City of London Police Fraud Squad at work, pinning down the few easy-fortune hunters. As evening falls, we are guests at a Lord Mayors Banquet; and end as we began, in the strange beauty of the City at night.' From a promotional booklet about the film. Directed by Carl Thomson and Richard Taylor. Produced by Anthony Barrier. Commentary by Clifford Norgate. Featuring music performed by the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.