World Wide News Items: Finding a Needle
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 6
- Section Title
- World Wide News Items
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: World Wide News Items - Find the Needle. DESCRIPTION: There was a wild rush to search for a needle in a haystack on a bomb site near St Paul’s, it was found by Nurse Rhoda Selby of Bart’s and the prize of a sewing machine was handed to her by actress Dorothy Dickson. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. Women cutting string holding haystack together. Crowds rush & start to search among the haystack, various shots of them being covered with hay etc. Women with needle in hand, almost covered in hay. Sewing machine presented to her, her name Nurse Rhoda Selby.
- Keywords
- Health and medicine; Curiosities; Competitions; Performing arts
- Locations
- St Paul’s Cathedral
- Card file number
- 56852
- Credits:
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- Camera
- George Richardson
- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 56
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