Christmas Decorations

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1587

Date Released

2 Nov 1959

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Sweden Beats England
2. 2For the Teenager
3. 3Father of Smoking
4. 4Christmas Decorations
5. 5Space News
6. 6Quick Service
7. *Ideal Home

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Christmas Is Coming. DESCRIPTION: A forest of firs in Bavaria, and money to be made by gathering branches for Christmas decorations. These men have no aids to climbing, they climb straight up, like monkeys! And they don’t come all the way down one tree, and then climbing all the way up the next! No, when in the tree-tops, they do as Tarzan does! SHOTLIST: Key scene. LS men walking through forest. LS man beings to climb tree. MS two men climbing tree. MS same. LS same (2). LS tree bending. MS man reaches for top of other tree. LS same. MS man throwing branches from tree. MS woman gathering branches. MS man and woman do same. CU man gathering branches together. MS men carrying branches and stacking them.

Keywords

Celebrations and festivals; Forestry

Locations

West Germany

Footage sources

Germany

Card file number

78466

Credits:

Commentator

Jeffrey K. Shearley

Length of story (in feet)

84

Story extras:

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