Colour: Chelsea & Dutch Flower Show

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2243

Date Released

29 May 1972

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Concorde Signing
2. 2Spaghetti Junction on Motorway
3. 3Birmingham’s Lord Mayor
4. 4Colour: Chelsea & Dutch Flower Show
5. 5Colour: Princess Anne in Jersey

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 5

Section Title

Colour

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Chelsea and Dutch Flower Show - in Colour. DESCRIPTION: The boom bloom is back with us once again. The flowers, though forced under glass, are bigger, better and brighter this year. The English are best in Roses, the Dutch are the best in Tulips as we see when Queen Juliana of The Netherlands visited Floriade ‘72 in Amsterdam. SHOTLIST: GV pan interior rock garden. SV pan Princess Margaret with officials walking round exhibition. SV pan Lord Snowdon with Derek Hart walking round show. SV Queen looking at show, rock garden in back ground. Prince Philip with officials & photographers. GV garden layout, Whiteleg & Sons. Pull focus CU Bottle Brush Callistemon Citrinus Splendens, Australia, pull back to SV. GV Belgian house plants. CU Parodia Scorparoides Cactus, zoom back to show mass of cacti in pots. GV Kalahari roses (McGredy and Ireland). CU zoom in ditto. CU zoom back Harry Wheatcroft looking over his roses. SV tilt Linda pinks, pan to carnations and pinks. SV begonias. CU pan round Tarakan tulips. GV pan Walter Brom tulips. SCU Parrot tulips. CU zoom in Estella Rynveld tulips. GV pan mass of tulips at Floriade in Amsterdam. SV pan to BV Queen Juliana with officials walking round exhibition, fountain in back ground. SV pan up Juliana looking at tulips. CU iris, pull focus to GV fountain. SV iris through water spray. SV Queen Juliana with officials. GV exhibition pan to SCU Amaryllis.

Keywords

Horticulture; Exhibitions and shows

Locations

London; Netherlands

Card file number

98150

Credits:

Camera

Denis White

Commentator

Leonard Martin

Length of story (in feet)

179

Story extras:

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