Bonsai Trees

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2452
Date Released
30 May 1976
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 4
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Bonsai Trees. DESCRIPTION: Bonsai is the art of dwarfing trees and to the Japanese it can be like making a ‘Tree Sculpture’. SHOTLIST: GV life size pine trees in Tokyo’s business district, with building in the b/g. MS ditto. MCU Pine Bonsai growing round a rock. CU ditto. MS Aronia Bonsai. MS large collection of Bonsai, being watered. MCU man watering Bonsai. Pan to see trees. MCU Mr Kato trimming the dead leaves of a Bonsai. CU ditto. MCU Goldenball Bonsai (Forsythia). MS Mr Nakamura in a corridor of his house cleaning a miniature Bonsai. MCU ditto. CU Japanese Quince Bonsai. CU five tiny Bonsai in the palm of a man’s hand. CU Mr Nakamura pruning a miniature Bonsai. MS row of miniature Bonsai on wooden shelves. MS man watering the Bonsai tree. MCU ditto. GV exhibition of Mr Nakamura’s work in a department store. MCU two Japanese women looking at Bonsai. MCU one of the Bonsai in exhibition. MS people looking. Pan down to Bonsai. MCU two Bonsai in exhibition. MCU more Bonsai in exhibition.
Keywords
Horticulture; Exhibitions and shows
Locations
Japan
Footage sources
Japan
Card file number
76/75
Credits:
Commentator
Leonard Martin
Length of story (in feet)
114
Story extras:
Film clip

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'Bonsai Trees', British Movietone News Issue No. 2452, 30 May 1976. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/30823 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)