| GARDENER'S GLORY Lovely footage of hybrid flowers being grown and displayed at Chelsea Flower Show. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6115 |
| Catalog #: | 38030 | |
| Clip Number: | 38030-3 | |
| Orginal Film: | CP 549 | |
| Timecode: | 01:39:25 - 01:44:49 | |
| Location: | England | |
| Year Shot: | 1965 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | EXHIBITIONS: Flower & Garden HORTICULTURE/GARDENS: Flower LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, London OCCUPATIONS: Horticulture SCIENCE: Botany | |
| Description: | Seed sifted in a special workroom. Narrator explains how precious and expensive this seed is. Seeds are measured out and tested. Seeds are sprouted. Girls are seen at work with lots of sprouting seeds. Beautiful flowers seen in the greenhouse. Preparations for Chelsea Flower Show. Lots of shots of plants being unloaded from vans and planted. Stands being built. Greenhouses being built. Turf being laid. Displays of flowers. Large rockery. Opening day of the show. Various displays including one for Sutton's. LS Man kneeling over stone putting it into position camera pans across to show man wetting sand in dry pond. MS Man fitting pieces of crazy-paving camera pans across to show man covering cracks with soil. MS Man placing piece of stone into crazy-paving. MS Man fitting roof section of greenhouse. LS Greenhouses being assembled. LS Through windows of greenhouse of inside being prepared MS Man building wall. LS Man laying bricks in circle camera pans across to show other men building. MS Man building. LS Men shoveling soil from lory. MS Camera pans down to show pile of soil. MS Man taking plants from back of lorry. (2 shots.) MS Camera pans down to flowers. LS Men wheeling small tree on trolley. MS Man fitting pieces of grass together camera pans down to grass. MS Man arranging flowers in tent. MS Woman arranging flowers camera rans down to flowers. MS Man walks up to flowers in f.g. and takes two potted plants. MS Man walks over to woman arranging plants. Woman arranging plants. CU Flowers on display camera pans across to man placing small flowers onto stone steps by gate (wrought iron). CU Flowers being put onto steps. LS Flowers on display camera pans across to others. MS Man carrying flowers. MS Man arranging flowers. MS Another man arranging flowers. LS Men holding small tree in garden man in f.g. giving directions where to place tree. MS Man moving hands. MS Men moving tree. LS Man on ladder fixing wooden frames of building. flowers in f.g. MS Flowers camera pans up to show other types of flowers on display. MS Flowers came a pans across to other flowers on display. CU Flowers camera pans across to others. CU Dark coloured flowers. CU Light coloured flowers. CU Dark coloured flowers. CU Flowers. CU Flower. LS Rhodedendrons on display in gardens. LS Flowers in garden camera pans across to others. LS Pond in garden. LS Pond in garden water cascading over artificial rocks into pond. MS Pond in garden camera pans down over rocks. MS Hand comes into picture and opens wrought iron gate in f.g. camera then tracks into tent where it passes flowers on display. LS Flowers on display. LS Flowers on display Camera pans across to others. LS Flowers on display on stand with black and white squared floor. LS Flowers on display. | |
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