| FAIRYTALE PARADE Tulips are beheaded and the blooms are made into carnival floats with a fairy tale theme in Spalding. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6034 |
| Catalog #: | 38067 | |
| Clip Number: | 38067-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | CP 335 | |
| Timecode: | 01:04:53 - 01:08:19 | |
| Location: | Spalding, Lincolnshire. | |
| Year Shot: | 1961 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | FARMING: Plant Nursery, Flowers HORTICULTURE/FLOWERS: Tulips LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England PARADES AND PROCESSIONS: Seasonal | |
| Description: | FAIRYTALE PARADE Tulips are beheaded and the blooms are made into carnival floats with a fairy tale theme in Spalding. Spalding, Lincolnshire. Various shots of a field of brightly coloured tulips; an elderly man in a flat cap, Charles Shaw, examines some blooms. Men and women working in the fields are seen taking the heads off tulips and putting them in sacks; men are then seen emptying boxes of tulip heads into huge piles. M/Ss and C/Us of two women threading the heads onto garlands. Various shots of people working on carnival floats that are being covered with hundreds of different coloured tulip heads. A girl is helped onto a finished float that shows two huge tulip bumble bees; she sits on a seat behind them - unfortunately, her face is obscured by bee-wings! Mr Van Driel from Holland, who designed many of the floats, is seen looking at a plan for a 'Cinderella' carriage float; he lowers the plan so we can see the finished float of three card horses leading a fairy tale tulip coach containing a fairy tale female (a real one!). Angled C/U of RAC signs pointing to 'Flower Parade' and 'Decorated Floats'. M/S of a clown trying to sell programmes to the crowd. Various tulip covered floats with a fairy tale theme pass along the carnival route; 'The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe'; 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'; unidentifiable one - with potato men and children! C/U of the crowd; a little girl in her mother's arms looks unimpressed and sulky. The 'Spalding Judo Club' float goes by; a heart emblazoned Interflora float; three large floral cellos; a Civil Defence badge in tulips; a girl sitting before a huge tomato; a Madame Butterfly theme. Tulip Queen, Norah Woods, rides past in a carriage. Nice M/S of the crowd; many people are taking photographs; pan left to show a huge tulip-covered watering can with a girl in it. | |
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