Trailer: Handkerchief Drill

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1071A

Date Released

15 Dec 1949

Date submitted

12 Dec 1949

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Trailer: Handkerchief Drill
2. 2A White Christmas - May Be!
3. 3And How about a Turkey?
4. 4Princess Margaret’s Words to School Children
5. 5Two New Commonwealth Premiers
6. 6Will Joe Louis Stage a Come-Back?
7. 7Malta - Royal Engagements and Memorial Unveiling

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 7

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Trailer - Handkerchief Drill. SHOTLIST: MS. People seated in cinema, man in centre sneezes. MCU people in lift same man at the back sneezes. MS office full of people man in centre using phone sneezes, (does not use handkerchief on all three occasions). 3 shots comforting hands on man. MS man seated at dinner table sneezes over food as a bucket of cold water is thrown over him. Sequence man is handed hankie, he dusts table with it, polishes shoes, polishing pears in garden. Sequence: pepper is poured over man as he sneezes, hankie is held to his face (x2). MS man sneezes into hankie and throws it in laundry basket. CU bowl of steaming water with hankie in. CU puzzled man, BS woman waves goodbye with hankie.

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Trailer

Keywords

Health and medicine; Public information

Footage sources

Central Office of Information

Card file number

52916A

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

90

Story extras:

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