Say It with Flowers

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1912A

Date Released

27 Jan 1966

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Say It With Flowers. DESCRIPTION: Pictures of the celebrations of the new Buddhist Year in Saigon, Vietnam. Also an annual festival in San Remo, Italy. An international affair with twelve countries taking part. It’s held to celebrate the coming of Spring. SHOTLIST: GV South Vietnamese shopping in the flower market. MS woman buying flowers. MS woman looking at the flowers. MS man wrapping flowers. MS girl gets onto back of scooter with a bunch of flowers, and driver pulls away. MS people carrying flowers. MS people buying flowers. MS women lighting joss sticks to their God Buddha. MS ditto. MS woman waving joss stick and praying. MS crowd waving joss sticks and praying. TS crowd on pavement. MCU propaganda poster. CU ditto. MS procession towards camera. pan a flower swan. MCU a girl sitting on a flower display float. MS another girl waving from float. MS ditto. LS flower float. MS girls waving from float. MS girl throws a flower from float. MS man in crowd catches flower. BS flower float.

Keywords

Customs and traditions; Horticulture

Locations

Italy; Saigon; Vietnam; San Remo

Footage sources

France

Card file number

90706

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

108

Story extras:

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