News in Colour: Bulb Festival

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2138

Date Released

25 May 1970

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 6

Section Title

News in Colour

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Spalding Flower Show Colour. DESCRIPTION: Spalding, in Lincolnshire, centre of the British bulb industry. The tulip fields in full flower are scarcely disturbed at the loss of eight million blooms to decorate floats in the annual Flower Parade. SHOTLIST: GV mass of weeds growing in field & CU. SV thistles in flower & CU. CU bug crawling along grass. SV dandelions in flower & CU. SV weeds growing around old bike wheel. CU hub of wheel & weeds. GV mass of red tulips growing in field, zoom in to SV. GV mass of tulips & LV. CU red tulips. GV procession of floats with No 23 called evening flight. CU pan ditto. Angle shot pan No 13 Lotus Car. GV float No 12 Parrot Garden. CU pan as parrot passes camera. SV float 27 entered by Spalding Farmers Club. CU zoom out to float 32 Queen of Sheeba.

Keywords

Entertainment and leisure; Vehicles; Horticulture; Exhibitions and shows

Locations

Lincolnshire; Spalding

Card file number

95963

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell
Camera: Ray Gallard

Length of story (in feet)

212

Story extras:

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