Sales Scramble Aka London Winter Sales (1957)

WINTER SALES Oxford Street, London. Nice footage of (mostly) women queuing for the sales then sorting through clothes. GV. Crowds of women queuing up, outside C & A’s Oxford Street. SV. From inside show window, showing model in foreground and queues of women outside. SV. Man with tray of teas handing them out to the waiting shoppers. One woman is asleep on another’s shoulder, and she reaches for her tea without looking up. SV. Women queuing along shop front while woman cleaner cleans round their feet. SCU. Woman, Mrs. Smith knitting as she waits. She arrived at 6 a.m. SV. Two girls jive in front of the queue, as the queue beat time with their hands. SCU. Part of queue beating time with their hands. LV. Entrance to the shop (Interior) with shop assistants standing in front of mass of women and - the women start streaming into the empty shop. AS. Doorway (interior) as women pile in. GV. Big: interior of store showing mass of shoppers. LV. Entrance with women still streaming towards us. CU. SCU. Women