Hep Cats and Home Birds

Series

Series Name: Ingot Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

Date Released

May 1956

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 4

Summary

NFA synopsis: Workers leaving the RTB Panteg works. Jim Collier’s son has organised a jazz-band. Jim Collier comes home from work and settles down by the kitchen range with his wife and daughter, while the film cuts to his son playing in the jazz-band and young people dancing (Pontypool Jazz Club). Jim Collier wakes up after snoozing over his newspaper.

Researcher Comments

Reel 3

Keywords

Music and dance; Entertainment and leisure; Domestic life; Industry and manufacture

Written sources

National Film Archive Catalogue Used for synopsis

Credits:

Commentator: Benny Lee
Support services: Derrick A. Gladwell
Producer: Geoff Busby
Editor: Jack Bygrave
Sponsor: Richard Thomas and Baldwins Group
Production Co.: Verity Films Ltd.

Length of story (in feet)

391

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