Price of the Past

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2037
Date Released
17 Jun 1968
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Design for Export
  2. 2Price of the Past
  3. 3Safe in Britain
  4. 4Meet the Bang Boys
  5. 5Dragons Are Lucky

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 5
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Price of the Past. DESCRIPTION: The Antiques Fair in London - despite the high prices - is one of the safest places to buy a genuine antique. But Eric Homewood, a one-time Scenic Artist at Shepperton, finds his antiques on wheels. He’s restoring coaches in the collection of the Marquess of Bute in North Devon. And he’s also making models of them, an export order worth eighty thousand pounds! But, over in Sweden, once precious possessions change hands for nothing. A Free market for your unwanted furniture. SHOTLIST: GV Free Market in Stockholm. TS ditto. MS ditto. MS bed. MS furniture. MS man takes cover off sewing machine. MS man and sewing machine. GV market. MS woman with stool. GV Antique Dealer’s fair. GV room with antique fitments. MS man examines antique dressing table. CU antique horse figurine. MS antique silverware. CU three silver tankards. CU goblet. BCU ditto. CU woman wearing Catherine the Great Jewellery. CU ditto. CU model coach. CU 3/4 view ditto. LAS sign Arlington Court. Travelling shot through gates of Arlington Court. MS coach. MS another coach. CU Eric Homewood. MS Homewood at work on restoring old coach. MCU ditto. CU Eric making model spoked wheel. CU blue print & photograph of coach. MS Eric taking measurement from blue print. CU photo of coach. MCU Eric holding photo of coach, with himself holding a model replica in the foreground. MS restored coach body. MS pan from coach door body to Eric at work on wheel. MCU Eric with wheel, pan down to bug. MS Eric pulls down hood of completed coach. MLS woman at Stockholm market takes away acquisitions. MS man with wooden box. MS people with acquisitions. MS family with table. MS pan old man wheels bike pulling trailer full of articles.
Keywords
Buildings and structures; Vehicles; Business and commerce; Industry and manufacture
Locations
London; Devon; England; Stockholm; Sweden
Footage sources
France
Card file number
93630
Credits:
Commentator
Franklin Engelmann
Camera
John Wanstall
Length of story (in feet)
231
Story extras:
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