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

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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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