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Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1088A

Date Released

13 Apr 1950

Date submitted

Apr 1950

Date submitted

1 Apr 1950

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Trailer: Lord Mayor’s Thanksgiving Fund
• 1. A Large Crowd Watched Dominicks Bar Wins the Irish Grand National at Fairyhouse
• 2. Royal Charter for Nairobi
• 2. Irish Movietone: Dublin’s Easter Parade
• 3. Paris Police Battle Communists
• 4. London’s Easter Parade
• 5. Easter - How Did You Like It?
• 6. His Holiday Awheel
• *Raich Carter Coaches Young Players at Hull City
• *US Sailors Entertain Glasgow Orphans

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

6 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: His Holiday Awheel. DESCRIPTION: Since it looked promising on Good Friday, out from towns streamed the cyclists, seeking sun, air and exercise in the countryside. What a rest cure are those wide horizons. How ennobling to the mind the gracious expanses of rural beauty. SHOTLIST: KS. Cycling club passing through street. Several shots of club en route through streets for the country. Trucking shot behind club, shows rear of last cyclist - Paul Wyand. Cyclists through Denham village. Club passes pond, spaniel runs up to pond. 4 shots passing countryside lanes. CU sign "The Royal Standard of England" pub. Cyclist stop at inn, drinking tea, Paul spits his out. Paul drinking beer, walks out of inn, finds the club have gone, Paul jumps on his bike & races after them, various trucking shots of Paul racing along lane, camera slowed down. Cut-in Reg Sutton (as farmer) holding fingers to ears, crash - hole in fence - Paul lying at bottom of embankment, on rubbish heap unconscious. Cut-in "Tip No Rubbish Here". Earlier cut-ins of Paul walking up hills.

Keywords

Entertainment and leisure

Card file number

53503

Credits:

Camera

Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw

Commentator

Lionel James Gamlin

Camera

Norman Fisher

Length of story (in feet)

245

Story extras:

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