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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