TWEE BOMEN: A Tale of Two Trees - an Escapade of Frank and Hexe
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Title: TWEE BOMEN: A Tale of Two Trees - an Escapade of Frank and Hexe
Reference number: 3819
Date: 1961
Director: filmed by Frank M. Marshall
Sound: sound
Original format: 16mm
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 10.03 mins
Description: Follows the children of Nairn Marshall getting into trouble around the house on Christmas Eve.
Credits:
[Nairn Marshall
Caroline Marshall
Frank Marshall]
Shotlist: title (0.15) shot of children eating breakfast, baby being spoon-fed by mother (0.54) exts. father arrives in a car; little boy helps his father to the door with a Christmas tree (1.27) c/u date: 24th December (1.36) mother decorates the tree with tinsel and wax candles (1.50) little boy observes through window outside; child finds a sapling evergreen in the garden, and fetches a saw from the shed; he cuts down his own tree "helped" by the family dachshund (3.03) ints. child brings his tree into the house in a box; boy, baby and dog playing tug-of-war with mother's knitting (4.41) boy using the unravelled wool to decorate his tree (5.56) mother looks for her knitting (6.33) boy secretes biscuits laid out for tea in his jumper; he shares the feast with the dog in his room (7.45) mother finds baby eating the biscuit left by his brother; baby is given castor oil; mother looks in on the boy to find him feeding the dog (9.04) shots of two Christmas trees; c/u nativity scene (9.47) The End (10.03)