Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: F/O Kite’s Baby Holds Christening Party
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- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 6 / 6
- Section Title
- Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Flight Officer Kite’s Baby Holds Christening Party. DESCRIPTION: Radio stars Eric Barker and Pearl Hackney attended the christening of Humphrey Lestocq’s daughter. SHOTLIST: CUT STORY: KS MS Flying Officer Kite, wife and nurse holding baby. MS into camera of the above three along pavement and enter church. Eric Barker and his wife Pearl Hackney enter church. Kite (actor Humphrey Lestocq) with wife, preceded by nurse carrying baby leave church, fade out and in, interior - the above standing over the baby, making cracks, (as they do on air) about baby etc. Mrs Barker (Miss-a-Hackney) asks Eric Barker if he would like a baby. CU baby with false moustache. Comedy word play by Barker and Hackney.
- Keywords
- Performing arts; Religion and belief
- Locations
- Maidenhead; Berkshire
- Card file number
- 49678
- Credits:
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- Camera
- Hilton Craig
- Commentator
- Lionel James Gamlin
- Camera
- Norman Fisher
- Length of story (in feet)
- 183
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How to cite this record
'Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: F/O Kite’s Baby Holds Christening Party', British Movietone News Issue No. 972, 19 Jan 1948. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/14891 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)