Colour: Miss Great Britain Contest & Hairspray Research

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2259

Date Released

18 Sep 1972

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 3

Section Title

Colour

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Miss Great Britain Contest & Hairspray Research - in Colour. DESCRIPTION: The Miss Great Britain Contest is held at Morecambe, and while that goes on, we follow the rigorous testing and final application of British hair-sprays in the lab, factory and finally in Paris. The final end product of all that make-up and hairspray ends in the Miss Great Britain Contest. SHOTLIST: CU girl having hair groomed. GV Miss GB contestants lined up in front of judges. SV judges left to right Anna Palk, Manny Shinwell and Julie Rogers. LV No 6 Lynda Ann Thomas parading. Zoom in to CU LV zoom in to No 12 Barbara Taylor. SV pan No 2 Wendy Ann Redman. CU man looking through opera glasses. LV No 13 Elizabeth Robinson (winner). SV judges. SV contestants walking from platform. SUPERSOFT CU woman having hair washed. SV ditto. SV beauty salon. CU woman having hair styled. Pan up to stylist. CU hair being sprayed with Supersoft. SV beauty salon. Woman having hair sprayed. CU two flasks bubbling in lab. GV laboratory. SV chemists working at bench. CU flask clamped in vibrator machine & machine started. SV machine in operation with 4 flasks on. CU flasks vibrating. CU chemist operates aerosol can in clamp. SV as chemist moves aerosol gradually nearer screen. CU chemist removes sheet of paper with spray marks on. SCU spray marked paper on bench. Pan up to chemist. SV girl looking inside test chamber. CU treated wig. SV girl opens test chamber door & assistant brings up camera. SCU assistant sets up camera in front of wig. SV as he takes photo. SCU as he removes camera. SV girl takes wig from test chamber. CU as he places it on table. SV girl closes chamber door. CU wig. SCU girl compares hair style of wig to photo. Zoom in to photo. SCU cans on production belt. CU ditto. GTV production belt (G). CU cans on production belt. STV ditto. SV ditto (31 shots). CU cans on production belt. GTV Supersoft factory (2). CU finished aerosols coming off production belt. CU girl taking cans from belt for packing. SV ditto. GV traffic on road up to Arc de Triomphe. SV girl walking in front of Arc. SV three girls walking down street. They stop and one shows others can of Supersoft. CU ditto. SV & CU ditto as she hands to one of the others to see. CU interior girl picks up can of Supersoft from dressing table. CU girl spraying hair. CU woman under hair dryer looking at beauty magazine. BCU magazine. GV interior Miss Great Britain contestants lined up on steps. SV judges zoom in to Julie Rogers. SV crowning winner, No 13 Elizabeth Robinson. TV people applauding. CU Robinson pan at 305’ to CU No 2 Wendy Ann Redman (2nd place). LV winner with runners up.

Keywords

Women; Competitions; Fashion and costume

Locations

France; United Kingdom

Card file number

98456

Credits:

Camera: Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

218

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