Trailer: Handkerchief Drill

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1071A
Date Released
15 Dec 1949
Date submitted
12 Dec 1949
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 7
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Trailer - Handkerchief Drill. SHOTLIST: MS. People seated in cinema, man in centre sneezes. MCU people in lift same man at the back sneezes. MS office full of people man in centre using phone sneezes, (does not use handkerchief on all three occasions). 3 shots comforting hands on man. MS man seated at dinner table sneezes over food as a bucket of cold water is thrown over him. Sequence man is handed hankie, he dusts table with it, polishes shoes, polishing pears in garden. Sequence: pepper is poured over man as he sneezes, hankie is held to his face (x2). MS man sneezes into hankie and throws it in laundry basket. CU bowl of steaming water with hankie in. CU puzzled man, BS woman waves goodbye with hankie.
Local distribution only
Trailer
Keywords
Health and medicine; Public information
Footage sources
Central Office of Information
Card file number
52916A
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
90
Story extras:
Film clip

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'Trailer: Handkerchief Drill', British Movietone News Issue No. 1071A, 15 Dec 1949. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/16096 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)