Just an Old English Custom
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 4
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Just An Old English Custom!. DESCRIPTION: The feud between Hallaton and Medbourne in Leicestershire has been going on for 6 centuries. And every year, fortified by a giant hare pie, the villagers gather their forces for the time-honoured battle, called The Hallaton Hare Pie Scramble and Bottle Kicking, the bottles being three kegs of beer. Starting from a point midway between the villages, the idea is to see which side can scrummage two of the barrels back across their own boundaries. SHOTLIST: Key scene. LS Medbourne Road. LS church at Medbourne. LS Hallaton Road. GV church in Hallaton. MS crowds. MCU hare pie distributed. GV man eating piece of hare pie. GV crowds and men carrying barrels. CU crowds follow. CU man throws barrel in the air. CU scramble for barrel. CU same. GV man dragged away from scramble. CU crowd. ES man lying on ground. GV crowd over hedge and into field. GV scramble in field. CU same. GV same. LS Medbourne crowd gain barrel. GV pan Medbourne man running with barrel. CU little girl watching. GV man with barrel over fence. CU another running with barrel. CU man throws barrel into Medbourne field. GV crowd. LAS man holds barrel while up a monument. GV same.
- Local distribution only
- Not shown in Scotland.
- Keywords
- Buildings and structures; Food and cooking; Customs and traditions
- Locations
- Leicestershire; Hallaton
- Card file number
- 88117
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 129
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