St Valentines Cards (1961)
London. L, S of a group of teenagers in leather jackets sitting round tables in a coffee bar, most of them are smoking. They are all looking at cards, C, U of a girl s face, the camera pans down to show her writing a card, she is holding a cigarette in the other hand. M, S of two boys, one of them is writing a card, the other puts a cigarette in his mouth. M, S of hands putting a card in an envelope and writing on it, other people round the table are looking at their cards, there is also a motorcycle helmet on the table. L, S of shelves full of boxes in a room, a man takes out one of the boxes and puts it on a desk, he sits down and opens it. The narrator tells us this is the Victoria and Albert Museum and this box contains Valentine s cards from 1861. C, U of the man s hands taking out a frilly box card with a picture in the middle. The narrator says the sentiments expressed in these cards are similar to those expressed by the modern generation. M, S of another patterned card, C, U of the card with hearts
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