Battle of Flowers

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1237A

Date Released

19 Feb 1953

Date submitted

6 Feb 1953

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Fifth Round Cup-Tie
2. 2Fifth Round Cup-Tie
3. 3Queen and Duke Tour Flood Areas
4. 4Frigate Raised
5. 5Mrs Churchill Launches HMS Hermes
6. 6Miller Gives Turpin Tough Battle
7. *Coronation Ball
8. *Battle of Flowers
9. *Rugger - Ireland V England

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Battle of Flowers. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. MS of procession. Elevated GV of Nice. Procession of vehicles decorated with flowers, girls on same. Along crowded Promenade des Anglais. Cut-ins crowds.

Local distribution only

Scotland only instead of item 2.

Keywords

Vehicles; Women; Horticulture; Celebrations and festivals

Locations

France; Nice

Footage sources

France

Card file number

58577

Credits:

Commentator

Lionel James Gamlin

Length of story (in feet)

71

Story extras:

Film clip

Movietone IconMovietone

• The first time you use this link in a session, you will need to log on at the British Movietone website and then click this icon again to see the film. For the remainder of the session, this link will take you directly to the film.

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

AP Archive

Email

info@aparchive.com

Web

http://www.movietone.com

Phone

+44 (0)20 7482 7482

Series held

View all series held by AP Archive