You Can’t Lick ‘Em
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 5
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: You Can’t Lick ‘Em. DESCRIPTION: It’s been called the most dramatic innovation since the introduction of the Penny Post in 1840. A postage stamp for Sierra Leone shaped like a map of the country with a self adhesive backing that you don’t have to lick. SHOTLIST: Key scene. MCU mass of Sierra Leone stamps. CU same. GV man at desk handing out stamps. MCU same sticks stamp on envelope. CU same. CU peeling stamp off showing silicone-coated backing (the new backing is self-adhesive).
- Keywords
- Communications; Postal services; Inventions and discoveries
- Locations
- Birmingham; Walsall
- Card file number
- 87886
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Camera
- Ronald E. Collins
- Length of story (in feet)
- 68
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