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Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1596

Date Released

4 Jan 1960

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. India’s Giant Project
• 2. Australian Contest
• 3. A Plane of the Future
• 4. Too Much Rain. Welsh Hill Moves
• 5. Too Much Rain. Floods in Ireland
• 6. 1960 Arrives

Story

Story No. within this Issue

6 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: 1960 Arrives. DESCRIPTION: This is how people celebrated New Year at Trafalgar Square: some of them were seen sploshing about in the fountains! At a big Maternity Hospital, only one baby arrived with the New Year, Robert Andrew Garton. And he was a bit late: 2.55 am, to be precise! SHOTLIST: GV crowds. LS revellers in fountain. MS same. GV crowds. MS revellers in fountain. GV crowds. MS revellers in fountain. Pan same. GV crowds. MS revellers in fountain. LS same. MS crowds dancing. CU sign ‘Queen Charlotte’s Maternity Hospital’. Pan nurse with baby. Pan same. CU baby (2).

Keywords

Buildings and structures; Music and dance; Health and medicine; Children; Celebrations and festivals

Locations

London; England

Card file number

78992

Credits:

Commentator

Geoffrey Sumner

Camera

John Davies

Camera

Len Waldorf

Length of story (in feet)

108

Story extras:

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