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Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1448A

Date Released

7 Mar 1957

Date Other

Feb 1957

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. The Baby Princess
• 2. Tragic Plane Crash
• 3. Transport - Old and New
• 4. Pancakes in a Hurry
• 5. Ideal Home - Royal Inspection
• 6. Big Terrorist Round-Up
• 7. Ghana Celebrations
• 8. All Fools
• *Royal Visit to Harrow
• *Seventh Round - Raith Through

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

8 / 8

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: All Fools. DESCRIPTION: At Schwenningen in Germany, the order was: Stop work, down tools - for it is the Festival of Fools. SHOTLIST: Various shots of people dancing in the streets wearing horrible masks etc.

Local distribution only

Not shown in Scotland.

Keywords

Customs and traditions

Locations

Germany; Schwenningen

Footage sources

Germany

Card file number

69937A

Credits:

Commentator

Geoffrey Sumner

Length of story (in feet)

60

Story extras:

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