Flowers From The Sea (1960)

M/S of waves crashing in over rocks, Bovey Tracey, Devon. C/Us of a collection of sea shells spread out on a table; a hand comes into shot and picks up one of them. C/Us and M/Ss of an elderly woman, Marguerite May David-Baker, as we see her wiring together some small shells found on the Dorset coast to make the petals of a flower; this one is an English rose. In the background of the M/Ss we can see hundreds of ornaments, presumably all made from shells. Marguerite paints the ’rose’ a pinky-peach colour and adds some green leaves to it, then turns around to look at some of her other finished ’shell flowers’. C/Us of some lilies and pink forget-me-nots, mounted on trellis work (notes on file say they are lily of the valley, but I think they look too big); some Polyanthus roses displayed next to a large shell. Commentator says many of the exotic shells are sent to Marguerite by friends from all over the world and “stranger still are petals and leaves in some cases made not from shells but from