We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
casually spoken line and the sudden crescendo of music. The abrupt cut to the title and the sound build-up makes this much more forceful than it would have appeared if the words had been declaimed in the commentary.
This simple descriptive passage presents comparatively small editing problems. The aim is to present a smooth, natural continuity and to give it an emotional significance through the interplay of visuals and commentary. More complex effects can be achieved in compilation films by giving a sequence a sort of " plot " which produces its own drama.
THE PEACEFUL YEARS1 Extract from Reel 4
The sequence quoted is preceded by shots of the Clyde, Jarrow and South Wales, where unemployment was at its worst in 1931, and of a mass demonstration. The commentary in each case is in the local accent. In contrast, James Hayter picks up in Cockney.
I F.S. Door of 10 Downing Street.
L.S. Five Cabinet Ministers descending steps into the garden.
L.S. Group of Ministers in the garden. They offer each other cigars and chat happily.
M.S. Ramsay MacDonald smoking and chatting to some others.
Group of Ministers their photographs.
sitting for
L.S. shooting down on to platform where Baldwin is addressing a meeting.
7 A short sequence of people enjoying themselves on the beach at Brighton, etc., begins.
1 Producer and Editor : Peter Baylis. Pathe, 1948.
Noise of crowd dies down. Commentator : (Cockney) At No. 10—
Ft. fr. 6
— everything in the garden 6 3 looked lovely.
The new Government was 10 15 made up of Socialists and Tories together. Wonderful sight — we'd tried 'em separately—
— the only thing left was to mix 6 3 'em up. And they called the mixture —
— a National government. Mark 9 8 you, a lot of us weren't very clear what a National government was !
Baldwin : (voice reverberating through the hall)
A National Government — is a
great ideal . . .
As Baldwin continues, his voice gives way to Grade Fields singing "I'm Looking on the Bright Side ..."
Writer : Jack Howe Us Associated British
201