Pop People

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2072A
Date Released
20 Feb 1969
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Jet-Set Navy
  2. 2Farm Tragedy
  3. 3Pop People
  4. 4Boxing

Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 4
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Pop People. DESCRIPTION: Top Pop Personalities attend the recent Valentine’s Day Awards to winners of a recent Magazine Poll. Among them DJ Kenny Everett, Jimi Hendrix, Mary Hopkin and Lulu. She receives her 4 awards from fiancée Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees, and we follow them to their wedding a few days later. SHOTLIST: MCU couple kissing. CU sign Welcome to Disc and Music Echo Pop Poll Awards 1969. MS Kenny Everett receives top DJ award from Maurice Gibb. MS audience. MS Jimi Hendrix receives Top Musician in the World award. MS audience. MS Mary Hopkin receives award for ‘Biggest Hope’ in Britain and the World. CU Mary Hopkin pan down to her award. MS Lulu receives award (four). CU Long John Baldry. MS audience. Montage sequence of group playing and girls dancing. MCU zoom out Maurice Gibb and Lulu. CU church at Gerrard’s Cross, Buckinghamshire. 4 shots crowds, police and press. 2 shots Maurice Gibb and Lulu after service. MS police hold back crowd. MS Maurice and Lulu. GV crowds.
Keywords
Mass media; Music and dance; Entertainment and leisure; Marriages; Performing arts
Locations
London; United Kingdom; Gerrard’s Cross
Card file number
94449
Credits:
Camera
Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Camera
Maurice Ford
Length of story (in feet)
155
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