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Flowers of London (Original title)
Date: 1924 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Frank Miller, Harry B. Parkinson

Shotlist: INTEREST. Shot of a garden in winter near London Bridge, fronted by a shop. This is followed by summer scene with masses of chrysanthemums (80-104); pink lavatera (123); marigolds (135); giant mixed gloxinia in a hot house (156); hybrid gesneras (173); streptocarpus (193); further west from London Bridge, see shots of antirrhinum (237-249); Swan river daisy (260); star of the veldt (269); clerodendron (278). Shots of activity at Covent Garden Market in the early morning, with gay bunches of flowers (311-445); open fields of stocks (468); larkspur (488); pink lupin (515); Michaelmas daisy (533); early sunflower (552); scarlet godetia (559). Shots of Piccadilly Circus, Eros and flower girls (595-634) and (717-740). Close shots of immortelles (634-644); asters (664); begonias (688); final shot of the Cenotaph, surrounded with flowers (754-797 ft).

Subjects:
Flowers, Gardens, Covent Garden, Piccadilly Circus, Cenotaph, Covent Garden Market, London, Westminster

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Releases
Date: October 2013Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specifiedRuntime: 10 mins 13 secs - Distributor: BFIPlayer

Credits (3)
Production Company: Graham-Wilcox Productions