Trailer: Nothing in the Bottle

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1067A
Date Released
17 Nov 1949
Date submitted
14 Dec 1949
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
6 / 6
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Nothing in the Bottle - Trailer. SHOTLIST: CU of a prescription. MCU of prescription being handed over to someone. CU of hands putting lotion onto cotton wool. Man having his back dabbed with the cotton wool. CU of man drinking medicine. CU of a girl being given medicine from a spoon and pulling a funny face. CU of an empty bottle. CU of a boy with a catapult. CU of bottles being smashed. CU of empty bottles. CU of prescription. Shot of medicine bottle being filled up. Medicine bottle being filled up. Medicine bottles being handed over counter. CU of 2 coins. CU of 10 coins. Pan along lines of medicine bottles. Shots of money. Medicine bottles being washed. CU of medicine bottle.
Researcher Comments
Commentary: Your NHS prescription sometimes dabbed on, sometimes drunk willingly, sometimes not so willingly, but when the bottle is finished don’t say ‘just the thing for my turpentine’. I suppose I really should say something about this. Your NHS prescription some 2 million bottles are used every week but each bottle costs from 2p to 10p. You can help to save the NHS £1,000,000 a year if you return your medicine bottles to the chemist where you got them from. Take them now.
Local distribution only
Trailer
Keywords
Health and medicine; Public information
Card file number
52810
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
77
Story extras:
Film clip

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'Trailer: Nothing in the Bottle', British Movietone News Issue No. 1067A, 17 Nov 1949. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/16050 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)