Quite a Spectacle!

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1825
Date Released
25 May 1964
Date submitted
20 May 1964
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Taxi Girl
  2. 2New at the Zoo
  3. 3Quite a Spectacle!
  4. 4Riding on Air
  5. 5Aid to Espionage

Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 5
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Quite a Spectacle!. DESCRIPTION: It wasn’t so many years ago that wearing spectacles made a pretty girl miserable. But that’s all history. Today, girls in Britain have a wider choice of styles than in any country in the world. Our pictures show some new shapes, underlining the trend for different spectacles to suit different moods and occasions. SHOTLIST: Key scene. Pan girl in bikini and spectacles. CU audience. CU girl wearing spectacles. BCU same. Zoom girl wearing spectacles. CU same. Zoom girl wearing glasses (2 shots). CU same. MCU girl wears jewelled glasses. CU same. MS girl modelling glasses. CU same. MS same. CU same. Pan girl opens blouse to spectacles. MS girl wears spectacles. Pan girls wearing spectacles. CU model with jewelled spectacles.
Keywords
Fashion and costume
Locations
London
Card file number
88362
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
128
Story extras:
Film clip

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