Champion Heavyweight Baby

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1099A
Date Released
29 Jun 1950
Date submitted
26 Jun 1950
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Communists Invade South Korea
  2. 2Champion Heavyweight Baby
  3. 3Midnight Barbecue for Charity
  4. 4Horse Guards Display by the Marines
  5. 5Mud Bath in First Rugby Test
  6. 6Wimbledon Opens
  7. *Reading Wins Jubilee Walk

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 6
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Champion Heavyweight Baby. DESCRIPTION: A bus conductor in Bray, County Wicklow, 35 year old John Kinch is congratulated on being the father of an outsize baby boy. Seen with his mother, young Anthony Michael weighed seventeen pounds three ounces at birth. SHOTLIST: KS. Bus along road into camera. SCU conductor (Mr Kinch) on step of bus. CU of him. People shaking his hand. Mother in bed with baby in arms. SCU father, mother and baby. CU baby being bathed.
Keywords
Children; Curiosities
Locations
Bray; County Wicklow
Card file number
53960
Credits:
Camera
George Fleishchmann
Commentator
Lionel James Gamlin
Length of story (in feet)
71
Story extras:
Film clip

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