Mrs Sara’s Quads

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1108A

Date Released

31 Aug 1950

Date submitted

28 Aug 1950

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Korea - Atrocity Eye-Witnesses
2. 2North Wales Train Smash
3. 3Mrs Sara’s Quads
4. 4Silverstone Disappointment
5. 5Britain Shines in European Games
6. 6Baby Princess Named
7. *Barry Stages Swimming Championships
8. *Cowal Games

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Mrs Sara’s Quads. DESCRIPTION: At Bellingen, Northern New South Wales, Australia, an English girl named Mrs Betty Sara has presented her husband with quadruplets. This is not only a big event in the Sara family, but makes medical history as it is not on record that quadruplets have ever been born in this country before. SHOTLIST: KS. GV town’s main street. Ditto. MS shops. Ambulance driven by Mr Sara. He gets out of ambulance. Walks up steps into hospital. Photographers take his photo. Interior - four doctors inspect X-ray plate. Betty Sara in bed, nursing No 2 quad, a boy named Philip. Mother & father & one of the quads. Nurses bring four milk-bottles on tray. SCU of mother & father.

Keywords

Children; Women

Locations

New South Wales; Bellingen

Footage sources

Australia

Card file number

54248

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

105

Story extras:

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