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Description: | In 1958 scriptwriter Harold Goodwin of Film Producers Guild was commissioned to make a new, full-colour documentary film about Huntley & Palmers. The film shows a party of visitors arriving at the factory and being taken on a tour of the various departments. The film is narrated by trained guide Sheila Smith. Organised tours, led by women guides, began in 1919 and continued until the 1960s. Distinguished visitors to the factory included Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, in 1955. The film opens with a stagecoach and four horses to recreate the scene outside the original London Street bakery. The original shop had been considerably altered so a more suitable shop-front, five doors down from 72 London Street, was used in the film. Mr Huntley was played by the films director Mr George Sewell. The film also included shots of the Queen Elizabeth liner leaving Southampton Docks carrying biscuits on board and air-travellers being offered Huntley & Palmers biscuits on a BOAC plane. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Publisher: | Merton Park Studios | Rights holder: | Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) | Subjects: | interior George Sewell social history trade advertising A Name to Remember (film) recreation Leon Bijou | Temporal: | start=1958-09-17; end=1958-09-17; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | George Sewell | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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