Item number (ISN):
352282
Fonds/collection:
WOODLEY, Charles Devenish
General access conditions for collection
Reproduction access:
- With written permissions / Avec les permissions écrites
Accession number:
2004-0059
Title:
Spreading the News
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