Variety Club - Gifts for Children
Series
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- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
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- 1 / 6
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Variety Club - Gifts for Children. DESCRIPTION: The Annual Christmas Lunch - climax to a campaign for 17,000 toys to be given to handicapped and deprived children. Home Secretary, Robert Carr as Guest of Honour. SHOTLIST: GV Savoy Hotel. SV interior gifts being unpacked. CU toys set out on table. CU card Merry Xmas. SV Robert Carr talking to Chief Barker Ben Rosenfield. SCU Guyana High Commissioner, Sir John Garter talking to Fred Pontin. SCU Frank Carson with Jimmy Edwards. SV Beefeater girl and comedians, Mike Reid & Charlie Williams with presents. SV ditto, 3 comedians dressed as Father Christmas. SV press photographers. SV Father Christmas, comedians and girls passing presents. SV Jack Goodlatte, Billy Butlin and Nat Cohen handing presents to Rolf Harris (in Santa Claus costume) and 2 Beefeater girls. SCU Carr in Father Christmas gear with Beefeater girls. SCU Rolf Harris with 2 girls pan down to presents.
- Keywords
- Celebrations and festivals; Social welfare
- Locations
- London; Savoy Hotel
- Footage sources
- Movietone
- Card file number
- 98715A
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 81
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