Spreading the News

Item number (ISN):
352282
Fonds/collection:
WOODLEY, Charles Devenish

General access conditions for collection

Consultation:
Open
Reproduction access:
  • With written permissions / Avec les permissions écrites
Accession number:
2004-0059
Media:
Film
Title:
Spreading the News
Part:
1 of 1
Production date:
1954/1958 ?
Production company:
  • Charles Devenish Woodley (Photographer)
Production Credit:
  • photography/editing/scenario, Charles Devenish Woodley
Description:
  • This film shows a newspaper delivery boy, Douglas Woodley, son of Charles Devenish Woodley, on his route. It shows: boy putting newspapers in a canvas bag and getting on his bicycle; he drives down the street with the bag of newspapers; he tosses newspapers at various houses; close-ups of newspapers as they land near or hit milk bottles on doorsteps, in a garden and on a rooftop; cutaways to irate customers, one of whom picks up a soggy newspaper which has landed on the wet porch he has just mopped; cutaways to an old woman who keeps looking for her newspaper on the porch, not knowing that it has landed in her flowerbed; a cat drinks from a puddle of milk leaking from a broken milk bottle; a customer peeks out a window; the paperboy throws his last paper in the ditch and the old lady still looks for her paper. <3mn 30s>
Copyright Status:
Under copyright.
Copyright Owner:
  • copyright owner : estate of Charles Devenish Woodley
Restrictions on Consultation:
No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions
Notes:
  • 1. Identification of the footage completed with the assistance of Bill Woodley, son of Charles Devenish Woodley.
  • 2. Source of title: head title on screen.
  • 3. Spreading the News won several awards.
  • 4. Accompanied by a separate sound recording of instrumental music recorded at a later date for synching up during projection of the film.
  • 5. A new optical sound track was made from the 1/4 inch mag track and edited to conform to the 35 colour picture.
Source:
DSINTRNL - 352282

Detailed Holdings

Vault ISN: 395250

Format:
FILM
Location number:
    • 2004-05-0032
Number of items:
1
Gauge:
8MM
Kind of Sound:
SIL
Colour:
Colour
Stock:
ORIG
Footage:
44FT
Max. shrinkage:
0.5%
Made from:
    • DEPOSIT
Status:
MASTER

Vault ISN: 395251

Format:
SOUND
Location number:
    • 2004-05-0033
Number of items:
1
Gauge:
1/4 IN
Kind of Sound:
MAG TRK
Footage:
44FT
Made from:
    • DEPOSIT
Status:
MASTER

Vault ISN: 410224

Format:
FILM
Location number:
    • 2013-04-0005
Number of items:
1
Gauge:
35MM
Kind of Sound:
SIL
Colour:
Colour
Stock:
DUPE
Technical Description:
INTERNEG
Footage:
220FT
Made from:
    • 2004-05-0032
Status:
PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN: 415779

Format:
VIDEO
Location number:
    • V7 2005-10-0166
Number of items:
1
Duration:
45:32
Scan Mode:
MINI DV
Made from:
    • DEPOSIT
Status:
MASTER

Vault ISN: 415782

Format:
VIDEO
Location number:
    • V8 2005-10-0003
Number of items:
1
Duration:
71:57
Scan Mode:
DVD
Made from:
    • DEPOSIT
Status:
REF

Vault ISN: 651929

Format:
FILM
Location number:
    • 2013-11-0003
Number of items:
1
Gauge:
35MM
Kind of Sound:
OPT TRK
Technical Description:
NEG
Footage:
220FT
Made from:
    • 2004-05-0033
Status:
PRT.ELEM
Date modified: