Can You Beat It?

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1146
Date Released
21 May 1951
Date submitted
17 May 1951
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Festival Fashions and Fabrics
  2. 2Can You Beat It?
  3. 3Salvador Tragedy
  4. 4HRH with Grenadiers
  5. 5Back from Malaya
  6. 6Paratroops Ready for Anything
  7. *Kirkwall’s Diesel Station

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 6
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Can You Beat It?. DESCRIPTION: Big news from Beaver Dam, Michigan, where there’s a claim for the largest number of living children put by a certain Mr Kooienga. He’s got a family of 21. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. Family of 21 group. Shots of the family of 21 lined up on terrace of bungalow. Various shots of the family. MS five twins in group. CU of each twin set. Pan of the family. Family walk across garden into camera.
Keywords
Buildings and structures; Children; Domestic life
Locations
Michigan; Beaver Dam
Footage sources
United States of America
Card file number
55476
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
59
Story extras:
Film clip

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