Christmas Story

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1124
Date Released
18 Dec 1950
Date submitted
12 Dec 1950
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Christmas Story
  2. 2The Clowns Are Coming
  3. 3Mrs Churchill with the Navy
  4. 4Bertha Hertogh Home
  5. 5Death Valley Break-Out

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 5
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Christmas Story. DESCRIPTION: Christmas means shopping, of course, and what a game it is! Scenes at Glasgow, Manchester, Liverpool, London and Paris show shops and shoppers in the familiar pre-festive activity. SHOTLIST: KS. SCU Christmas card with Father Christmas playing an organ. Glasgow - Various shots of Glasgow streets, with shoppers walk & look into windows. SCU male waiting with parcels. SCU woman looking around for somebody - maybe her husband. Interior - Father Christmas receives kids, shakes hands, kids look frightened. Manchester - Elevated GV crowds & traffic in Piccadilly, people walk in & out of shops. Shot from inside shop window, people peer in. Liverpool - GVs of stores. Interior - mechanical displays, wedding procession, drawing of famous pantomimes, Sinbad the Sailor, etc. London - trucking & GVs of front of Selfridges, Oxford Street. MS Father Christmas in sleigh being drawn by reindeer, displayed in front of Selfridges. Paris - interior - children walk along hugging rail looking at very good mechanical displays. Various shots of mechanical displays, horse with feet on counter over saloon bar, etc. In Cheshire, various scenic shots of snow covered countryside, roads, etc. Cars covered in snow. Boys playing "snowballs". Interior shot, looking through window out at falling snow.
Keywords
Shops and shopping; Celebrations and festivals
Footage sources
France
Card file number
54731
Credits:
Camera
David W. Samuelson
Camera
Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
Camera
James Humphries
Camera
John Charles Elder
Commentator
Lionel James Gamlin
Length of story (in feet)
248
Story extras:
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