Battersea Dogs Home - & Animals Eccentrics
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 5
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Animals. DESCRIPTION: A £58,000 new wing and clinic for the Battersea Dogs’ Home in London banishes for ever the picture of the forlorn stray. Nowadays, guests have underfloor heating, glass-fibre beds and many other luxuries. There’s one big drawback, though. The let cats in as well! From France, a series of unusual pets and the people who keep them. SHOTLIST: GV pan Battersea Dogs Home. CU dog in cage. LV corridor. LV kennel boy walks along aisle between cages and stops. SCU pan down boy bathing dog. CU Alsatian howls. CU sign B Block. LV corridor of cages. SCU 2 shots dogs in large cage. CU dog behind bars. GV kitchen. SCU meat in refrigerator. SCU man puts meat into boiling pot. LV kennel boy brings dog into vet. CU dog, as vet cleans dog’s eye. CU vet pan to dog. SV sign whelping block. CU dog with puppies. BIG CU dog pan to puppies. SV sign cat house. SCU cat drinks milk. SV kitten in cage. CU (2) dogs in cages. LV garden shed. SV girl in shed with pet owls. CU owl. SV eagle on pedestal. LV pan eagle in flight. SCU girl feeds falcon. SV girl sits on step with falcon with rabbit, fox and hedgehog and other animals. SCU hedgehog. SCU fox and hen. SV boy in bath with duck. SCU boy. SCU boy scrubs duck. SCU boy sits at table reading with duck. SCU boy hits duck on beak with pencil. SV boy dismisses duck. GV pan vulture flies over crowd and lands on trainer’s arm. LV vulture on trainer’s arm. CU ditto and flies away. GV vulture flies over crowd. SV ditto lands on another trainer’s arm. SCU (2 shots) pan vulture walks. CU vulture. SV trainer about to kiss vulture. CU cat plays with chicks. CU chicks on cat’s head (2 shots).
- Keywords
- Buildings and structures; Health and medicine; Curiosities; Social welfare; Birds; Animals
- Locations
- France; London
- Footage sources
- France
- Card file number
- 96138
- Credits:
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- Camera
- Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 230
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