News Events - in Colour: Spalding Tulip Festival

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1824
Date Released
18 May 1964
Date submitted
9 May 1964
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Flight of the Pelicans
  2. 2News Events - in Colour: Spalding Tulip Festival

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 2
Section Title
News Events - in Colour
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: News Events - in Colour Spalding Tulip Festival. DESCRIPTION: The fertile fields of South Lincolnshire are the heart of Britain’s bulb-growing industry. We went along there at tulip time, where some 3 thousand acres are devoted to the growing of some of the finest tulips in the world. It takes 3 years for a bulb to reach sufficient flowering size to be sold, and each year as the flowers reach full bloom, the heads have to be nipped off to give the bulbs more vigorous growth. These heads are either thrown away, or used for one of the biggest flower festivals in Britain - the Flower Parade at Spalding, with its magnificent floats in all colours of the rainbow. SHOTLIST: Colour Title - GV pan fields of flowers. MLS two people nipping off heads of tulips. GV tulip fields. MLS workers nipping off heads of tulips. MCU same. CU same. CU tulip heads thrown into basket. MCU man nipping off heads of tulips. MS workmen empty baskets of tulip heads into trailer. GV procession of floats past camera. MS children in crowd. MS pan float past camera. MS pan another pulled by horses. MS pan float British Pig Industry past camera. MS pan Aeromatics float past camera. MS pan same. MS pan float Grotte Gavolli past camera. MCU pan beauty queen on float past camera. MS two floats past camera. GV procession. MCU girl on float. TS tulip fields. GV same.
Keywords
Entertainment and leisure; Horticulture
Locations
Lincolnshire; Spalding
Card file number
88317
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Camera
Mark McDonald
Length of story (in feet)
287
Story extras:
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