| Making Sea Shell Flowers | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6779 |
| Catalog #: | 440200 | |
| Clip Number: | 440200-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | EP 249 | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | Great Britain | |
| Year Shot: | 1932 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | INDUSTRY: Maunfacturing, Misc | |
| Description: | SHELL FLOWERS FROM THE SEA SHORE Women making artificial flowers from sea shells. Three women make flowers from shells - these are then arranged in spectacular displays. United Kingdom MS women in white coats working on these creations. 2 sit at table in FG and anotherstands in BG assembling a complicated basket arrangement. This seems to be in someone's house, home industry. Title mentions a Mrs. Francis-Lewis. ECU bunch of small sea shells on table. CUs of women's hands working - poking holes in the shells, running wire through holes with needle, tying together a tiny bunch of stuff meant to be the inside parts of the flower, then putting the shells around to represent petals. MCU woman sits at table painting shell. CU same: painting shell attached to wire. CU woman's hands brushing some paint onto insides of petals on assembled flowers in a bouquet - look like begonias. MCU 2 women working at table. CU woman winding flowers around handle of a small basket. MS 3 women creating fancy shell flower arrangements. Finally 3 small projects are seen in succession displayed on a triangular table: CU porcelain doll with skirt covered with tiny shell flowers. MCU flowers 'climbing' up handle of small basket; ECU shell tulips inside a vertical loop. | |
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