January’s A Frost (1963)

Item title reads - January’s a Frost. Various locations. L/S snow covered countryside on Dartmoor. L/S sheep walking about trying to find food. Various shots as men shovel coal into sacks from wagon at Gypsy Hill. M/S coalman carrying sack of coal onto lorry. M/S people queuing up for coke, etc. at 9 Elms Gas Works. M/S man carrying away large sack of coke on his shoulder. C/U small girl carrying bag and boy pushing pram loaded with sacks. Another loads a pram up with sacks. M/S small girl carrying paraffin can, she stops in front of pump ’Super Green paraffin’, pan down to ’Sorry awaiting delivery’. She walks away again. Various shots of a closed school with icicles hanging from roof, pan down to notice on blackboard ’No school today’. M/S people in queue holding buckets, watering can and kettle, queuing up for water from emergency tank. C/U water filling kettle. Various shots as people get water. Exterior shot of old woman with kettle about to enter her home. Interior shot of family sitting rou