A Girl’s Best Friend

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1607
Date Released
21 Mar 1960
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Princess Margaret’s Busy Days
  2. 2Wearing of the Green
  3. 3The Boom Line
  4. 4A Girl’s Best Friend
  5. 5Latest Arrival
  6. 6Canberra Launched

Story

Story No. within this Issue
4 / 6
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: A Girl’s Best Friend. DESCRIPTION: Highly Important Jewels was the description in the catalogue at an auction at Sotheby’s. They went for over £187,000. Seen here is the auctioneer dealing with the big pink diamond, the largest of its type ever auctioned in Britain. SHOTLIST: CU diamond. MS diamond merchants. MS same. CU another (4). GV hall. MS man displaying diamond. TS buyers. MS auctioneer. CU buyer. CU diamond.
Keywords
Business and commerce
Locations
London; England
Card file number
79625
Credits:
Commentator
Geoffrey Sumner
Camera
Michael Samuelson
Length of story (in feet)
74
Story extras:
Film clip

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