BAKING A BIRTHDAY CAKE
Full length video
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Title: BAKING A BIRTHDAY CAKE
Reference number: 9022
Date: 1966c
Director: [filmed by George Gibson]
Sound: silent
Original format: std. 8mm
Colour: col
Fiction: Non-Fiction
Running time: 4.54 mins
Description:
Amateur footage of a woman in a 1960s kitchen making a pink birthday cake and chocolate crispies.
Film-maker was George Gibson, a keen amateur and a member of a cine club in Dundee at the time.
Shotlist: [no title] - shots in kitchen, woman using Kenwood Chef rotary electric food mixer, adding ingredients - spreading mixture in cake tin, changing setting on mixer - spreading icing on cake, adding top layer - covering cake entirely with pink icing (2.51) '4 Irene' written on cake with sugar balls, four coloured candles added - shots of woman making chocolate crispies at kitchen table, boy and girl watching, then allowed to lick spoons and scrape pot (4.54)