Festival Closes

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1170A
Date Released
8 Nov 1951
Date submitted
5 Nov 1951
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Paris Meeting of Big Four
  2. 2Festival Closes
  3. 3Royal Visitors at Arlington
  4. 4Royal Film Performance

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 4
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Festival & Fireworks. DESCRIPTION: The last night of this year’s Battersea Show was a cheerful one; Mr Morrison, too, was in an optimistic mood, but the official closing of the Pleasure Gardens by the Lord Mayor of London, Sir Denys Lowson, was clearly unpopular. Fireworks at Edenbridge in Kent were in quite another cause; here, once again, the people were celebrating the foiling of the Gunpowder Plot - and that’s a tradition going back nearly three and half centuries. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. Set piece - firework. GV Battersea Festival Gardens. Crowds singing Down at the Ole Bull & Bush. Morrison on platform refers to the closing of the Festival. Crowds - cut-ins & types. Lord Mayor Lowson speaks officially closes Festival Gardens. Firework display, mix to Edenbridge. Various shots of set firework pieces going off. Procession through streets, including the guy. Various shots crowds around huge bonfire. Guy Fawkes set off, burning & fireworks coming from him in all directions.
Keywords
Commemorations; Politics and government; Buildings and structures; Music and dance; Entertainment and leisure; Fires; Ceremonies; Local government
Locations
Battersea; Edenbridge
Card file number
56312
Credits:
Camera
David W. Samuelson
Commentator
Lionel James Gamlin
Camera
Norman Fisher
Camera
Paul Wyand
Length of story (in feet)
191
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