Film archive shot lists

[Trevor]

One of my tasks at work is to summarize newsreel shotlists to a searchable format: a big job since the newsreels stretch from 1919 - 1984 but anyway. You sometimes find some funny things like this one from 1954:

AFRICAN MIRROR 774 (FA 7510)

The Sadler's Wells Ballet Company arrives in Cape Town and Johannesburg.
Green Point Stadium hosts a Scots gathering.
Boxing: Lew Lazar in training for his bout against Eddie Thomas.
The Mashonaland Car Club of Rhodesia hosts its' hill climb outside Salisbury.
Focus on the work of the Worcester Animal Welfare Society.
The minesweeper Pietermaritzburg adopts a stray black cat as their mascot.
A "ninja" turtle caught by a trawler off the Cape Coast is transferred to the Sea Point Aquarium in Cape Town.
The arrival in SA of Hollywood star Danny Kaye and scenes from the premiere of the film West of Zanzibar, directed by Harry Watt.