- Title: U100
- Date:1960s
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Summary:
FAMILY ALBUM
1966
THE GAS COUNCIL
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00:00:58:00-01:05:00:00
vs of illustrations of streets in Victorian / Edwardian times ms man in costume opens window ms woman holding candelabra blows candle out ws man walks through the living room commenting on the furniture they have just moved in ws two men and woman enter old-fashioned kitchen and talk about replacing it with a modern gas stove / cooker / oven / cooker they leave the room and a man closes the door vs of a horse drawn carriage and men unpacking the furniture and bringing it into the house vs of servants in livery / uniform moving old furniture to the attic ws woman takes candelabra from mantelpiece and man lights new gas lamps ws two removal men put baby's crib against the wall ws mother and father say goodnight to baby in the crib and leave the nursery while turning off the gas lamp vs of photographer taking a family portrait outdoors he has an old-fashioned camera on a tripod and is under a black veil montage of old fashioned black and white photographs showing the family expanding over the years
01:05:00:00-01:10:00:00
cu of an invitation to 21st birthday party ws servants in the kitchen complain about the bad cooking facilities ws the housekeeper and butler enter the room and order the servants to get the master's bath water ready ws of all the servants running up the stairs carrying buckets and basins of water and towels ms butler pours out a glass of wine and puts it on a silver tray which another servant passes around to the guests at the party who are listening to the hostess play the piano ws of three women in ball gowns (one waves a fan) sitting down listening to music ms man turns a page for a woman playing piano ms of young man looking sinister zo from cu of man at desk writing to ms of woman at typewriter ms of bride and groom zo to ms to inc parents pov pan along wedding presents laid out on display vs of vintage car driving on road with man carrying a red flag in front of it car is passed by a man on a pennyfarthing ws of windmill and people cycling on the road cu of a gas light ws man in dinner suit stands in front of fireplace vs woman stands in hall while phone rings and asks the butler to answer it pan to man on the other phone
01:10:00:00-01:15:00:00
vs showing a couple going into a turn of the century picture house and watching one of the Lumiere films (man hosing garden and train pulling into the station) ms of the couple reacting with amazement vs archive footage of Queen Victoria's jubilee and the Gordon Highlanders marching off to the Boer war vs of the funeral of Queen Victoria mw of couple sitting in cinema woman crying dabs her eyes with handkerchief vs of Edward VII opening parliament and the Prince of Wales George V opens a tram ms of man pouring port from decanter and passing it to the other men sitting around the table ws three women in evening dress enter drawing room and sit down ws four men sit around the dinner table smoking cigars and talk about new inventions ms three women in drawing room complain that they cannot get good servants these days vs of suffragette who has chained herself to the railings being arrested by policemen vs of women sitting in a living room drinking tea and knitting talking to a suffragette who has just come out of Holloway Prison man comes into the room and opens up a newspaper with headlines of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassination in Sarajevo cu of newspaper's front page vs of women saying goodbye to soldiers on their way to WW1
01:15:00:00-01:20:00:00
vs of soldiers coming out of trenches in WW1 vs of crowds on the street celebrating the end of WW1 inc black soldiers in uniform ws of two soldiers in uniform in WW1 ws large terraced house vs mother father and two children walk up the stairs and go into the attic where they find old furniture and clothes ws people carry furniture down the stairs ws man mends / fixes doorbell while other man looks on and woman walks in the door with shopping bag ws man installs a gas fire zo to show man sitting in an armchair reading the paper pan to children listening to radio montage showing different styles of radio announcing special events like the fire in Madame Tussauds Wax Museum zo from radio announcing the unveiling of a statue of Emmeline Pankhurst to a woman running around the kitchen doing chores ws man in dressing gown walks into the bathroom ws woman puts pie in the oven ws man sitting in bath smoking a cigarette funny shot of schoolboys in Eton-style school uniform dancing to a radio on the lawn ws man sitting under a tree bedside a radio that announces the German invasion of Poland ms two men in navy uniform (one has a funny false moustache) ws two men sit at a desk
01:20:00:00-01:21:30:00
vs of removal men carrying furniture into a house inc shots of husband and wife deciding where to put things ws husband and wife argue in the kitchen while tradesmen install a drying cupboard and washing machine. (End missing) - TYPE:
- DATE:1960s
- GENRE:
- SOURCE:Greenpark
- Decade:
- Colour:Colour
- Keywords:UK HISTORY, COAL, GAS, IN DOMESTIC SETTING, 1800s, 1900s, FAMILY LIFE, CHANGE, INTERIOR OF HOME, DECOR, APPLIANCES
- Master Title:U100
- Segment:Greenpark
- Sound:Sound
