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:

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