Year of the Tiger (In Colour)

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1708

Date Released

26 Feb 1962

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Home and Dry!
2. 2It’s a Strange World
3. 3Scramble Speed-Up
4. 4Year of the Tiger (In Colour)

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 4

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Year of the Tiger (In Colour). DESCRIPTION: Welcome, Year of the Tiger! Farewell, Year of the Bull! Hong Kong celebrated the Chinese New Year with a three-day holiday and lots and lots of fire crackers. Six million of them, they say, greeted the Year of the Tiger in Hong Kong! SHOTLIST: Key scene. Decorations. Artist at work. Artist selling his works. Shot of an old man. Artist gives man painting. Shot of millinery store. Girl holding dress bought from store. Small boy holding new clothes. Kids eating sticky buns. Girl praying in front of shrine. Girl burning offerings. Man lights cracker. People watching fireworks. Various shots of Chinese lanterns. Shots of the streets gaily decorated, shot of fire engine passing.

Keywords

Celebrations and festivals

Locations

Hong Kong

Card file number

83938A

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

161

Story extras:

Film clip

Movietone IconMovietone

• The first time you use this link in a session, you will need to log on at the British Movietone website and then click this icon again to see the film. For the remainder of the session, this link will take you directly to the film.

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

AP Archive

Email

info@aparchive.com

Web

http://www.movietone.com

Phone

+44 (0)20 7482 7482

Series held

View all series held by AP Archive