All Colour Reel: London Entertains Festival

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2336A

Date Released

14 Mar 1974

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Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 2

Section Title

All Colour Reel

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: London Entertains Festival Colour. DESCRIPTION: Ox roasting and fireworks at the ‘London Entertains’ Festival held at Crystal Palace. Part of a campaign by the Tourist Board, to encourage visitors to London. SHOTLIST: SV Joseph Barron, the head cook adding to the fire under the roasting ox. CU ox being turned on spit. MS man turning spit. GV ox being roasted with crowd watching. CU medal round neck of one of the cooks (pan up). MS Joseph Barron sharpening knife & handing knife to Colonel Viscount Eden (son of Sir Anthony Eden). SV Colonel Viscount Eden cutting off slices of beef from ox. CU Colonel Viscount Eden pan down to him cutting meat. SV crowd. MS Eden putting meat on plate then trying a bit. LV waterfall of affect in firework display. LV fireworks, Pom Poms. GV cascade of rockets. LV mass of flames and lights from fireworks. GV rocket exploding. GV rockets launching & exploding. BV crowd watching fireworks exploding.

Keywords

Entertainment and leisure; Food and cooking; Celebrations and festivals; Military

Locations

Crystal Palace

Card file number

99810

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell
Camera: Stan Goozee

Length of story (in feet)

152

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