Learning on ScreenSomething for the Birds
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 5 / 6
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Something for the Birds. DESCRIPTION: The International Poultry Show at Olympia tells the whole story of the chicken and the egg, and features a Turkey that could provide a Christmas dinner for two hundred people!. Over at Alexandra Palace, the Talking Bird Contest is the noisiest section of the National Cage Bird Show, with a Mynah named after Ted Heath, talking everybody else off the platform. SHOTLIST: MCU egg sorter at poultry show at Olympia. 2 shots receptionist. CU pan man looking at chicks. MCU zoom in chickens in cage. MCU pan egg sorting machine. 3 shots eggs sorted. MCU eggs in boxes. MCU pan boxes of chicks. 2 shots chicks. 5 shots various cockerels in cages. 3 shots 60lb turkey on scales. MS pressmen. MS breeder Mr Hugh Arnold. MCU humming bird at National Cage-Bird Show at Alexandra Palace. CU two parrots. MCU Nicholas Parsons with winner of talking bird contest. Ted names after Edward Heath. CU Ted the Mynah. CU parrots. CU Ted.
- Keywords
- Food and cooking; Agriculture; Competitions; Celebrations and festivals; Forestry; Fisheries; Animal husbandry; Animals; Performing arts; Inventions and discoveries; Exhibitions and shows
- Locations
- London; Olympia; United Kingdom; Alexandra Palace
- Card file number
- 94210
- Credits:
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- Camera
- Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 146
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