Film Stars At Battersea Funfair (1960)

Unissued / Unused material.
Film stars at Battersea Funfair. London.
MS Stanley Baker embracing woman, pan Harry Secombe talking to a bespectacled man and then dancing off with Hughie Green, they stop to pull faces at the camera. CU Harry Secombe, Hughie Green and Benny Hill. LS's of water chute with boat coming down. Travel shot past girls waving. CU Shirley Bassey, Stanley Baker, Harry Secombe and Benny Hill in water chute boat as they come round and hit water. Various shots crowd and autograph hunters watching etc.
MS Shirley Bassey, Stanley Baker, Benny Hill and Harry Secombe coming off ride, Benny Hill is smoking and Secombe is feigning illness and being helped along by Hughie Green. MS Secombe, Benny Hill and Stanley Baker coming towards camera mugging etc. MS pan from Hughie Green taking photograph to couple kissing, pan back to Green who then goes and kisses the girl himself. MS David Kossoff signing autographs. MS hands in elaborately decorated gloves signing autographs. MS Mike and Bernie Winters signing autographs. MS pan from photographer to Chas McDevitt, Shirley Bassey and Bert Weedon having their photographs taken. MS notice 'take your autograph from the stars and move along'. Elevated LS looking down on stars surrounded by people.
MS Secombe, Stanley Baker and members of the 'Army Game'. MS Trevor Howard, Edmund Purdom and Michael Medwin. MS's Norman Rossington, Ted Lune and Michael Medwin in army clothes from 'Army Game' eating big sausage. CU Robert Morley. MS Big Wheel in action. Various shots as Norman Rossington, Michael Medwin and a girl get into car on Big Wheel. various shots from it as it goes round. Elevated MS Festival Gardens. Various shots crowds of people.
Cataloguer's note: Colour item.
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[@DSBthevoice]

Lovely to see the young Dame Shirley

[@Muswell]

Wow - I remember these stars - & Battersea Fun Fair - so well.

[@Muswell]

Michael Medwin still alive - now 91.

[@martinplatt5928]

Mike and Bernie Winters at 2.10 signing autographs.

[@donkiddick08]

probably only shirley bassey left now.

[@deancarter8667]

dean carter not*

[@donkiddick08]

me neither. sue lyon was blonde and famous about then?

[@MrSebfrench76]

Benny Hill at 1.15 ??

[@martinplatt5928]

Yes correct. Smoking too!

[@jamesmeagan870]

You mean Stanley Baker and i saw Norma Rossington and Hughie Green

[@larrysincredibletrailers2213]

Edmund Purdon having fun.

[@spuwho]

Stanley Baker!

[@thehoneyeffect]

Shirley Bassey at the beginning!

[@michaeljones1886]

Was that Harry secombe at the start?…

[@ronin99999]

Yes

[@martinplatt5928]

Stanley Baxter (not the comedian, the actor) at 1.12 I think.

[@angelagibbons9337]

Stanley Baker!

[@heathstjohn6775]

Norman Rossington, Mike and Bernie Winters, Michael Medwin, Robert Morley; Trevor Howard; Benny Hill; Shirley Bassey: Harry Seacome; Edmund Purdom; David Kossoff: and all the, fully clothed, smartly dressed unknown, unremembered people, easily distinguishable between men and women, who made their careers for them.

[@uttaradit2]

reggie kray at 3.06