Women’s News
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
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- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 3
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Women’s News. DESCRIPTION: Women’s Lib in various forms. Women police officers are taking over car patrol duty in London. In Romania, the police there on point duty are a whole lot prettier than the ones we see here. But in feminine France, the girls there, too, have come crashing into the man’s world - a Rugby match no less! But in the world of fashion, it is still almost a woman’s world, especially in the 72/73 Paris fashion show. And woman are getting the jump on men as they eagerly throw themselves from planes to qualify as parachutists. SHOTLIST: CU policewoman Sheila Bainbridge, pan to Eve Walker. CU three policewomen - Walker, Bainbridge and Jacqueline Tripp. SV policemen watching. Tracking shot Rover 3500 with light flashing driven by Bainbridge under instruction from policeman. CU interior Bainbridge driving. Travel shot through windscreen. SCU pan Rover drives past. Tracking shot Tripp under instruction driving MG. SCU ditto. SV Romanian policewoman directing traffic. SV policeman watching. SCU pull back as policewoman blows whistle and directs traffic. CU interior policewoman driving car past policeman on traffic duty. SCU policewoman on traffic duty blows whistle and directs traffic. CU her hand waving. Pull back as car draws up & driver hands her a bunch of flowers. CU policewoman smells flowers and salutes. CU pan from legs to woman rugby player tying boots. SCU another woman preparing for match. CU girl tying boots. SLV pan match in progress. SV girl races down wing but is tackled by large woman. SV cluster of women scrambling for ball. SLV pan game in progress. SV bunch of women jump up for ball. SV girl races down field, passes by 2nd girl and is tackled. SV pan general play. SCU girl after match with cut above eye & blood running down face. LV audience at French fashion show. 2 models walk out from behind camera. SLV models file out onto stage. SV model getting changed in dressing room. SV audience (buyers?). SCU 2 models on stage. One opens jacket to show dress. SV another model getting ready. Assistant doing up dress as model puts on hat. CU model puts on hat and walks towards stage. SV as she comes out onto stage. SCU as she dances around. SV another model being helped on with black evening dress. SCU model on stage with low cut dress. SCU pan down, model wearing black evening dress on stage. SV ditto. SV women parachutists in plane waiting to jump. SV pan as they jump out one after another. BV ditto. Ground to air plane flying over and women parachuting down. GV parachutists coming down. LV ditto. SV girl coming in to land. LV zoom in as she lands in field. SCU girl takes off helmet & straightens hair.
- Keywords
- Sport; Police; Fashion and costume
- Locations
- France; United Kingdom; Romania
- Footage sources
- Movietone
- Card file number
- 98392
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Camera
- Reginald William Smith
- Length of story (in feet)
- 248
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