It’s a Strange World
Series
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- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 4
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: It’s a Strange World. DESCRIPTION: Our pictures show a class being taught the mysteries of yoga, and pupils’ ages range from 4 to 70. Try it yourself, yoga can work wonders!. A strong believer is Miss Sadie Harrison of Manchester, a very young 68. Thanks largely to yoga, she’s learnt to fly. This is all the more remarkable, because previously she’d failed even to learn to drive a car. Every year in Britain, nearly a hundred youngsters lose their lives from their clothes catching fire, and three times as many elderly people. But now, a new synthetic fibre has been produced. It’s called BHS, and it just won’t burst into flames. Now for something very strange, because it’s so rare, heavy snow in Jerusalem. It’s years since such a thing has happened. But youngsters know exactly how to make the most of it! SHOTLIST: Key scene. MS class in progress. CU teacher. MCU (2 shots) class in spider position. MCU girl standing on head. CU teacher. MCU girl in lotus position. CU book on yoga. MS Miss Harrison doing yoga. CU sign Lancashire Aero Club. MS Miss Harrison in cockpit of plane. MS man starts propeller. MS plane taking off. LS plane in flight. MCU men setting light to dress. MCU dress goes up in flames. CU (3 shots) materials made of new fibre. MS men tries to burn dress made of new fibre. CU same. CU girl with dress on. CU trying to burn dress. CU (4 shots) youngsters playing with snow (2 shots) snowman.
- Keywords
- Education and training; Weather; Safety devices
- Locations
- Manchester; Sydney; Australia; Jerusalem; Israel
- Footage sources
- Australia
Movietone
- Card file number
- 83951
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 174
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