Selected Originals - Search For Missing Boy - Jimmy Poole (1950)

Selected originals (offcuts, selected scenes, out-takes, rushes) for story ’Child Hunt Takes In All Midlands’ - 50/4 Material for Newsreel Story - extra shots. Wolverhampton, West Midlands. MS Barge moored on canal which is dragged for trace of boy and where he was eventually found. MS Canal with people walking along tow path. MS Back view man and small boy looking into canal MS People standing on bridge looking down into canal. CU Sign - ’Goodyear Avenue’. MS Tracking shot along road, where boy lived. MS House where the Poole’s live. CU Head shot of boy’s mother. MS Policeman talking to man with bike outside a house in door to door check up. CU Head shot of police constable. CU Head shot of man shaking his head. MS Tracking shot along thoroughfare in Wolverhampton town. MS Pedestrians walking along busy street. CU Tracking shot along people lining pavement. MS A Dowser water diviner joins in the search. CU Dowser’s hands holding forked rod, which jumps in his hand. MS Dowser at work in brick ki
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