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)