Floral Police Station (1957)

Belgravia, London. M/S of the doorway to Gerald Road police station with the traditional police lamp outside. M/S of a poster advertising the police force, it has a picture of a smiling policeman holding a booklet saying ’A career with the Metropolitan Police’. Above it is the slogan ’There’s No Better Job’. M/S of the doorway again, the camera pans down to show a hanging basket of pink flowers. P.C. Taylor walks out of the door. M/S of P.C. Taylor with a watering can, he starts to water pink flowers in a long trough. There are other window boxes and climbing plants around it, the flowers on display include Morning Glory, geraniums, fuchsia, begonias and lobelia. The narrator says Sergeant Slee and P.C. Hart are responsible for this display and several people take it in turns to tend the flowers. C/U profile of P.C. Taylor, the camera moves down to the pink flowers he is watering. M/S as he finishes watering and puts the can down. He holds one of the flowers and starts to snip it off. L/S as