Lionel Gamlin (Courtesy of the BBC) Tells the Story of Britain’s August week-end: Your Holiday at Home

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

687A

Date Released

6 Aug 1942

Date submitted

4 Aug 1942

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Lionel Gamlin (Courtesy of the BBC) Tells the Story of Britain’s August week-end: Your Holiday at Home
2. 2Lionel Gamlin (Courtesy of the BBC) Tells the Story of Britain’s August week-end: Uniforms Take a Holiday
3. 3Lionel Gamlin (Courtesy of the BBC) Tells the Story of Britain’s August week-end: Uniforms Take a Holiday
4. 4Lionel Gamlin (Courtesy of the BBC) Tells the Story of Britain’s August week-end: Uniforms Take a Holiday
5. *Lionel Gamlin (Courtesy of the BBC) Tells the Story of Britain’s August week-end: Barrel Rolling Contest

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 4

Section Title

Lionel Gamlin (Courtesy of the BBC) Tells the Story of Britain’s August week-end

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Holidays at Home. DESCRIPTION: With the beaches covered in barbed wire people sort attractions closer to home. The local authorities provided some of the entertainment that used to be found in the seaside towns. SHOTLIST: This included special Cut-in sequence of a suburban dweller, who takes his holidays at home. He is seen in bed smoking, after having had his breakfast brought up to him by his wife. He intends to do quite a lot of work to the garden and to the home in general, but his wife runs all the errands and does all the work, while he does nothing. Other shots were of dancing, boating etc. Close ups of a baby. Soft Ball In Hyde Park - CARD 42668 This is all part of the ‘Holidays At Home’ Baseball & Cricket. Shots of US troops playing with a soft ball and children joining in with them.

Keywords

Sport; Music and dance; Entertainment and leisure; Children; Environment; Curiosities; Domestic life; Horticulture; Military

Card file number

42610

Credits:

Camera

Alfred A. Tunwell

Camera

John Hutchins

Commentator

Lionel James Gamlin

Camera

Paul Wyand

Length of story (in feet)

211

Story extras:

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