Learning on ScreenChristmas is Coming
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 5 / 5
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Christmas Is Coming. DESCRIPTION: The Christmas shopping season is now well under way, so we have been to see some of the decorations which will transform our stores and shopping streets into fairy land. At this factory in Chesham, they’re putting the finishing touches to designs for several towns and cities, including London and Birmingham. Will it be a White Christmas? Perhaps the Three Wise Men, who’ll be keeping an eye on shoppers and crowds in London’s Regent Street, know the answer. At the Employment Fellowship in Camberwell, they’re also working for Christmas. Here, old people with young and nimble fingers are busy making Christmas crackers. It’s one of 30 centres throughout the country where the old folks can do some light work, and earn a little extra something. SHOTLIST: Key scene. Woman making silver decorations (4 shots), man winding cotton around light (3 shots). MS man hangs light up, man sprays decoration (2 shots), The Three Wise Men (3 shots) (decoration for Regent Street, London). GV room of decorations, woman joining bulbs and checking decorations (4 shots), lights go on (3 shots). MS large lights, man checking decorations (2 shots). MS old people making Xmas crackers. CU man. CU two old women making crackers, old folk making crackers (5 shots). MCU women packing crackers. CU woman, old people collect their pay packets (5 shots). Old folk get dinner (2 shots), three old ladies eating their dinner (3 shots).
- Keywords
- Celebrations and festivals; Industry and manufacture
- Locations
- Camberwell; Chesham
- Card file number
- 85485
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Camera
- Norman Fisher
- Camera
- Ronald E. Collins
- Length of story (in feet)
- 176
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