News in Colour: Jersey Battle of Flowers

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2096A

Date Released

7 Aug 1969

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Euro-Games Prospects
2. 2Beating the Handicap
3. 3The Queen in Hull
4. 4Exposure in Paris
5. 5News in Colour: Jersey Battle of Flowers

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 5

Section Title

News in Colour

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Jersey Battle of Flowers Colour. DESCRIPTION: Extrovert DJ Jimmy Saville escorts Carole Reeves, this year’s Miss Battle of Flowers at Jersey’s annual Floral extravaganza. This year’s Jersey Battle of Flowers is certainly one of the most successful ever held. Beautiful blooms, beautiful girls, beautiful weather. SHOTLIST: MS carnival float made to look like Swiss clock. MCU girl on float. Tracking shot crowd along routes. MLS Jimmy Saville with beauty queen. LAS ditto walks up steps on float to beauty queen’s throne. MS pan horse drawn carriage. CU man and woman in carriage. Various shots of different floats. MS girls band marching towards and past camera. TS spectators. MS float representing World Cup. LS zoom in Jimmy Saville on float with beauty queen. 3 shots participants of the carnival wearing comic big heads. MS girl on float waving. 2 shots floats. MS crowd. MS carnival queen on float. MLS Jimmy Saville revealing his chest to crowd. TS crowd. MS pan Coco the Clown with children on float. LAS sign Holiday Queen. MS pan the holiday queen passes by on float.

Keywords

Music and dance; Vehicles; Horticulture; Celebrations and festivals; Performing arts

Locations

United Kingdom; Jersey; Channel Islands

Footage sources

Pathe

Card file number

95040

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

209

Story extras:

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