Christmas
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 12 / 12
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Spending Season Is Now in Full Swing. Sign of Happy Christmas. DESCRIPTION: Spending season now in full swing is sign of Happy Christmas. SHOTLIST: Oxford Street scenes. People looking in shop windows. Kerb sellers. Shot of the ground and the toys on same. Feet of passers by in the picture. CU of turkeys. Mass of turkeys. Mass of ducks. Snow covered Christmas Trees. Christmas trees being cut. Shots in the post office. Shots of sorting. Parcels come down ‘chute. Parcels and letters sorted. Telegram department and telephone exchange. CU of telegram from Movietone to patrons.
- Keywords
- Entertainment and leisure; Weather; Shops and shopping; Business and commerce; Horticulture; Communications; Celebrations and festivals; Postal services; Animals
- Footage sources
- Movietone
- Card file number
- 4970
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 91
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Film clip
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Film Archive
- Name
- AP Archive
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- Web
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- Phone
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How to cite this record
'Christmas', British Movietone News Issue No. 393A, 17 Dec 1936. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/7118 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)