| GIRL GUIDES Story showing how modern the girl guides are in 1969 - adventure holiday and Gang Show footage. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6090 |
| Catalog #: | 140645 | |
| Clip Number: | 140645-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | CP 734 | |
| Timecode: | 01:37:28 - 01:41:25 | |
| Location: | England, East Grinstead, Sussex. | |
| Year Shot: | 1969 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | AGE GROUP/CHILDREN: Scouts / Guides LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, Sussex ORGANIZATIONS: Youth, Girl Scouts & Guides | |
| Description: | GIRL GUIDES Story showing how modern the girl guides are in 1969 - adventure holiday and Gang Show footage. Hang out with the Girl Guides of England and learn how they defined fun in 1968: camping, cooking, rock climbing, canoeing, singing and dancing. East Grinstead, Sussex. Panning MS group of uniformed Girl Guides walking along road, another group off teenage Girl Guides joining them. Tracking shot two Girl Guides walking & talking. High angle panning TLS Girl Guides walking along street, another group of Girl Guides in disparate uniforms joining them. Tracking shot teenage Girl Guides walking & talking. CU Girl Guides pin on blouse. CU "Be Prepared" badge sewn on shirt arm. TLS/MSs two teenage girls walking between boulders at Black Land's Farm in Sussex, taking off take off haversacks (backpacks) and anoraks (jackets); they take rappeling rope, walk over to rock where girls are climbing (rock climbers, rock climbing). MS two girls walking through break in rocks. MSs girl using ropes to climb down rock. TLS/MSs girls climbing rocks, some using ropes, others doing it by hand. MSs two teenage girls cooking egg balancing via safety pin over campfire, one girl blowing on coals. MS/CUs girl wrapping fish in wet bag at campsite, then placing bag into fire, the egg still cooking. MCU two girls watching fire, one girl blowing it. CU girl pouring bag of frozen peas into top of hollowed out grapefruits, then placing top on; MS Girl Guide placing grapefruits onto fire. MSs Girl Guide placing marshmallow and chocolate chunk into empty banana skin, then placing banana skin on fire. CU grapefruits, banana in fire, chicken on spit being turning over top of fire; the top of a grapefruit is taken off, puts back on. MSs Girl Guide placing potatoes into tin foil (aluminum foil), then onto fire. CUs gawky faces of rather boyish girls with very boyish haircuts staring at fire. Ingenuity with cooking food. Panning TLS Girl Guides wearing life vest walking canoe to river, stop another girl in kayak canoeing in river. TLS two girls in canoe being pushed off into river; pan right as they canoe up river. Tracking shots Girl Guides in canoes. Cut to MS sign over storefront: "Gang Show '68" tilt down to uniformed Girl Guides & two young Boy Scouts displaying cagey smiles entering hall. LS group of Girl Guides dancing on stage (cam in balcony); nice MS smiling teenage girls in matching green dresses dancing on stage, passing cam; TLS girls frolicking in two lines across screen; MS cute girls dancing, choreographed moves. H/a MS audience clapping; side view CU man's face, tilt down to clapping hands. Great MSs uniformed Boy Scouts and Girl Guides (all bright-eyed white teenagers) performing in finale, raising their hands & singing in unison-- the showstopper; LS Ralph Reader on stage with Girl Guides & Boy Scouts in finale; two teenage girls walk up from behind him, put their arms round him. MS Ralph Reader putting the squeeze on two smiling Girl Guides. | |
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