Learning on ScreenWatch on the Forests
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 4
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Watch on the Forests. DESCRIPTION: That Christmas tree you buy from the shops - have you ever wondered where it was grown? Quite possibly it comes from one of the 500 forests maintained by the Forestry Commission. Their job is to take precautions against tree bandits at this time of year. Here, in the New Forest, 35,000 woodland acres have to be patrolled day and night. SHOTLIST: Key scene. GV couple walking through forest. MCU woman chopping branches from tree. MCU couple sawing tree down. CU same. GV Forestry Commission patrol arrive in Land Rover. CU pan dog jumps out of same. MCU patrolman puts radio on back. CU dog. MS patrolman and dog enter forest. MS same through forest. GV pan down couple finishing sawing tree and proceed to take it away. GV same carrying tree along pathway. MS policeman stops car. CU driver shows permit to policeman. CU same inspecting permit. MCU same hands permit back to driver. MS pan car drives off.
- Keywords
- Forestry
- Locations
- Hampshire; New Forest
- Card file number
- 87625
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Geoffrey Sumner
- Camera
- Norman Fisher
- Length of story (in feet)
- 122
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