You Can’t Beat Home Cooking!

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1779

Date Released

8 Jul 1963

Date submitted

3 Jul 1963

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 4

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: You Can’t Beat Home Cooking!. DESCRIPTION: The Army Catering Corps willingly accepts that you can’t beat home cooking. And they invited twenty-six mums to compete in a contest to find the mum to beat ‘em all. The Menu: Roast lamb, greens, spuds, apple pie and custard. The winner was Mrs Jones of Rossendale, Lancashire - the mum with the mostest! SHOTLIST: Key scene. MCU sign Army Cookery Competition Finals. GV competitors prepare food. MS same. MCU woman competitor. CU woman cutting. MS same putting flower in bowl. MS mixing. MS woman sorting out food. MS sign. MS woman puts food on plate. CU woman. CU meat and potatoes. MS woman with dinners. MS same puts dinners on table. MS people tasting food. MS man does same. MCU man writes comments. MS people line up for dinner (2 shots). Meat being cut (2 shots). MS meat put on plate. People sit down and eat (3 shots). GV people in hall. MS Mrs Jones (a soldier’s mum) receives cup. The competition was organised by the Army Catering Corps Training Centre, and they invited 26 soldiers’ mums to show their skill.

Keywords

Food and cooking; Competitions; Military

Locations

Aldershot; St Omer Barracks

Card file number

86848

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

113

Story extras:

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