Battle of Flowers

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2569

Date Released

27 Aug 1978

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Story No. within this Issue

1 / 3

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Battle of Flowers. DESCRIPTION: Once an actual battle, where the participants pelted each other with flowers, today the Battle of Flowers means a Carnival Parade through the streets of St Helier. Millions of individual blooms are used to decorate the floats and all are locally grown. This Year’s Miss Battle was accompanied by singing star Sacha Distel. SHOTLIST: MS mermaid float past. MS crowd. MS float tilt up to Neptune. MS float with Sacha Distel and girl (Miss Battle - June Valerie Wilson) on it. MCU ditto. MS decorated car past ‘from Guernsey’ woman waves. MS flowered float with Dutch windmill at rear. MS men with lion faces near crowd. MS Storm Trooper from ‘Star Wars’. MS crowd. MS float shaped like a bottle with boats inside. Track from Viking ship with Viking at front. MS Viking ship. CS Mickey Mouse PB to ‘50th Golden Anniversary’. Tracking from ‘Bernard & Bianca’ (Rescuers) float. TS ditto. MLS Mickey Mouse float. CS Castle PB to Mickey Mouse float. MS crowd. GV people dancing in street - float approaching. MCS Jamaican type float. MCS steel band. MS man playing kettle drum. MLS ditto. MS vase of flowers PB to ‘Woman’s Word’ float. MS band playing on float pan. MCS JYFC float. TS float pieces of paper thrown. MS crowd. GV crowds among floats.

Keywords

Horticulture; Celebrations and festivals

Locations

Jersey

Card file number

78/137

Credits:

Commentator: Leonard Martin
Camera: Paul Kavanagh
Camera: Richard Day

Length of story (in feet)

261

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