Learning on ScreenSay It with Flowers
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
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:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 108
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