The Ideal Home

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1552A
Date Released
5 Mar 1959
Date submitted
3 Mar 1959
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1The Premier Ends Tour
  2. 2Cyprus Welcome
  3. 3England V France
  4. 4Rodeo in India
  5. 5The Prince at the Fair
  6. 6The Ideal Home

Story

Story No. within this Issue
6 / 6
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Ideal Home. DESCRIPTION: This year’s Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition at Olympia received an early visit from the Duchess of Gloucester. She spent over two hours walking round this famous show where all the latest products of ideal equipment for an ideal home are on view. People lucky enough to have gardens will want to see the splendid gardens which have suddenly sprung at Olympia. There is a corner of Sir Winston Churchill’s garden at his Chartwell home, to give one example. SHOTLIST: GV house (key). GV exhibitions. TS Duchess of Gloucester and party walking. CU same. SCU examining exhibits. CU new type carpet sweeper. CU lid of cooking utensil in removed revealing contents. MS girl operates water heater. MS operates room heater. MS girl unfurls collapsible ladder. CU fastens clip at end of ladder. MS girl places ladder against wall. Semi GV fountains in replica of Chartwell Gardens. Another same. LS girls walk in gardens. LS looking at paintings in the Marlborough Pavilion. Closer paintings. LS Blenheim Palace. LS British Pavilion. Another. LS Warwick Castle. GV house. MS house. GV house.
Keywords
Royalty; Buildings and structures; Mass media; Women; Domestic life; Horticulture; Exhibitions and shows
Locations
London; Olympia; England
Card file number
76538
Credits:
Camera
Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
Commentator
Jeffrey K. Shearley
Camera
Ken Taylor
Length of story (in feet)
119
Story extras:
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