Wee Liek Scool

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1694

Date Released

20 Nov 1961

Date submitted

17 Nov 1961

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Along the Rally Route
2. 2A Wig Does Wonders
3. 3Wee Liek Scool
4. 4School Days Remembered
5. 5The Royal Tour Continues (In Colour)

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Wee Liek Scool. DESCRIPTION: Roxeth Primary School at Harrow is experimenting with an alphabet called the augmented Roman. The idea is to help the very young to become literate before they tackle the normal complicated spelling of English. We looked in at a class of four and five-year-olds, being taught by Miss Kemp. SHOTLIST: Key scene. GV school. CU school sign. GV children seen into school. CU sign. GV boy closed door. GV inside school. CU book. CU pan number 2-6. MCU teacher. CU girl. MCU teacher and girl. MCU teacher. CU girl. MCU teacher. CU girl. New Alphabet teaching system.

Keywords

Education and training; Children

Locations

Harrow; Middlesex

Card file number

83491

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Camera

Mark McDonald

Length of story (in feet)

101

Story extras:

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