Twilight Of Life Aka Old Folks Home (1958)

Etwall, Derbyshire. L/S of a group of elderly men and women walking along, they are wearing dark blue velvet cloaks, the men are wearing hats, the women are wearing hoods. Various shots of them walking. The narrator explains they are wearing the uniform of those who live in the alms houses of Sir John Port’s Hospital. M/S of the alms houses, the group walks up to a man sat outside at a table, he is Mr Grimwood-Taylor who is giving out the alms. C/U as one man walks up and signs for some money. C/U of Mr Grimwood-Taylor, C/U as he gives the old man a ten shilling note. M/S as a woman comes up for her money. M/S of two men sat at a table one of them is filling in a Pools coupon. C/U of Major Betterton, who is Chairman of the Trustees of the Hospital, talking to them. C/U as 79 year old Bill Edwards fills in his coupon, he smiles, C/U of the coupon. C/U of 82 year old Bill Holt . L/S of the Chaplain, Canon Kidson, talking to Mrs Susan Bailey and Edith Lindores as they are sat sewing. M/S as the C
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