| INDOOR GYPSY CAMP Romany food and entertainment at a Gypsy party at London's Mount Royal Hotel. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 314 |
| Catalog #: | 521321 | |
| Clip Number: | 521321-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | CP 320 | |
| Timecode: | 00:05:05 - 00:05:58 | |
| Location: | London | |
| Year Shot: | 1961 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | CULTURAL GROUPS: Gypsies (Romany) FOOD/RESTAURANTS: Ethnic Food FOOD/RESTAURANTS: Unusual LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, London PSEUDOSCIENCE: ESP, Precognition (Fortune Telling / Predictions) | |
| Description: | See catalog # 108739 for complete story INDOOR GYPSY CAMP Romany food and entertainment at a Gypsy party at London's Mount Royal Hotel. M/S of two men and a woman sitting around a camp fire; the woman stirs a cooking pot hanging over the fire; they are all dressed in gypsy costume. A young girl comes in and sits by the fire and the men talk and gesticulate. The woman passes a ladle of soup for one of the men to taste; he has a pointy moustache, a golden earring and a woven scarf around his head; he waggles his head around to say the soup is OK (I think!). C/Us of the soup cauldron as the woman stirs; the young girl laughing. C/U of a hand-written sign saying 'Madame Vera - Fortunes'. M/S as a lady and man in evening clothes enter Madame Vera's tent; Madame Vera waits in headscarf and gypsy clothes before her crystal ball. The man walks on as the lady sits opposite Madame Vera and giggles as her fortune is told; good news presumably. Commentator tells us the Gypsies were at London's Mount Royal Hotel for a party featuring the gypsy. M/S of a hanging flower basket; panning left to show a sign above a tent entrance reading 'Tinker's Haven'. | |
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