Feather Flowers Artificial Flowers Being Made From Feathers At Reedham In Norfolk Footage

FEATHER FLOWERS Artificial flowers being made from feathers at Reedham in Norfolk.
This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA.	Tape Master:	6110
	Catalog #:	503602
	Clip Number:	503602-1
	Orginal Film:	CP 288
	Timecode:	01:09:12 - 01:12:08
	Location:	Reedham, Norfolk
	Year Shot:	1960 (Actual Year)
	Audio:	Yes
	Color:	Yes
	Headings:	HORTICULTURE/FLOWERS: Artifical LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, Norfolk
	Description:	FEATHER FLOWERS Artificial flowers being made from feathers at Reedham in Norfolk. C/U of some brightly coloured exotic-looking flowers outside in a field or garden; tilt down to show they are in a vase - although they look very realistic they are artificial. C/U of woman's hands picking up feathers from a pile of bright pink and yellow ones; she curls them with the blade of a pair of scissors; M/S of Doreen Beck as she sits at a table curling feathers and tying them together; there are feathered flowers in a vase beside her. Commentator says "Here at Reedham in Norfolk, the most exquisite flowers are made from the feathers of birds!" M/S of the whole table where many women are sitting and making feather flowers. C/U of a bright pink flower taking shape; commentator says "There's no limit to the ingenuity of these highly skilled craftsmen - they can reproduce any flower from these feathers, already dyed to the required colour". Low angle C/U of DB twisting wire around the end of the flower to make a stalk, C/U of someone making a laburnum blossom; M/S and C/Us as a girl attaches the blossoms to a bush in the garden; a peacock with folded tail is seen wandering around in the background; C/U of the finished bush - it looks very realistic. M/S and CUs of Dawn Tobell painting markings on a feather Stylosa Iris. M/S of three women working on flowers at a table; C/U as a woman paints a red colour onto a flower. M/S of a peacock sitting on a fence with tail folded. C/Us of a girl and Kathleen Edwards arranging flowers; M/S of DB as she makes Rhododendrons; C/U of Josephine Shorten as she paints some tiger lilies, tilt down to show more on the table. C/Us of a rose; then Monica Yaxley finishing an Iris and adjusting flowers in a vase; C/U of Irises of different colours in a vase; C/U of Stylosa Irises in a bowl shaped like a gondola (the moss in the bowl is marabout feathers). M/S of KE stroking the feathers of a model peacock, and MY who is arranging flowers in a window box. M/S as a woman packs the flowers into a cardboard box.