FLOWER AND THE STRAW, the

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Title: FLOWER AND THE STRAW, the

Reference number: 2854

Date: 1955

Director: [filmed by N. McIsaac, J.T. Ritchie, R. townsend]

Production company: [ Norton Park Group]

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 9.42 mins

Description: Based on Dickens' "Sketches by Boz" and George Cruikshank's etchings which illustrate the book. Verses of the "Broken-hearted Milkman" sung by James Watson, Ronald Johnson and Owen Swindale. The song "When the Moonlit Wave" by Christina Stephenson and Elizabeth Johnson. Raymond Townsend and Sylvia Budd speak the various Cockney characters.

Made by teachers at Norton Park School, Edinburgh.

Shown at Edinburgh Film Festival, 1955.

Credits: Norton Park Production No. 4
drawings by George Cruikshank words by Charles Dickens
[camera J. Lennie]
spoken by Joseph Macleod

Shotlist: Dealing briefly with London life in the 1830s, this film is based on Dickens' "Sketches by Boz", and George Cruikshank's etchings which illustrate the book (9.42)