Christmas

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

394

Date Released

21 Dec 1936

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Prepardness
2. 2Reports: Australia’s "Henley"
3. 3Reports: Mrs Freer
4. 4Reports: Sandhurst inspection
5. 5Femina: Shirley Temple asks after Quins and New Zealand quads make debut
6. 6Sports: Reported by Alan Howland: The Brisbane Test
7. 7Christmas

Story

Story No. within this Issue

7 / 7

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Turkeys Play Role of Tradition While Big Share Outs Proceed. DESCRIPTION: Turkeys play role of tradition while big Share-Outs Proceed. SHOTLIST: CU Turkey. Comedy shot of Lew Lehr as a Pilgrim Father stalking a turkey. Firing at same. He struggles along with the turkey in his arms. While Big Share Outs Proceed - CARD 4978 Shots of the share out headquarters. Shot of the cheque. Father Christmas walking along with sackful of cash and followed by police and armed guards. Interior at share out. PDSA. Shots of a Christmas dinner given to horses. CU of batches of food - carrots etc. Shots of horses eating the food. Goat feeding. Lew Lehr with turkey and grindstone. Seated at table with the turkey sitting alongside.

Keywords

Sport; Organisations; Health and medicine; Food and cooking; Curiosities; Economics; Celebrations and festivals; Social welfare; Animals; Inventions and discoveries; Hunting

Footage sources

Movietone

Card file number

4977

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

109

Story extras:

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