Floral Arrangements Aka Floral Arranging (1956)

Berkley Square, London. M/S of Beatrix Thompson adding flowers to a large arrangement on a pedestal in her home. Another large floral arrangement is at the left of the shot. A portrait, presumably of Beatrix in younger years, is on the wall. Commentator informs us she makes everlasting natural flowers out of specially treated natural leaves. C/U of Beatrix arranging the flowers shows them to be rather shiny and unnatural in appearance. We hear the flower making became her career after being invalided home from ENSA work in Burma. C/Us of the flowers, all very colourful and painstakingly constructed. M/S of Beatrix sitting with an assistant, taking leaves from a pile of branches on the table. Various shots as she cuts a leaf into shape and twists some wire around it. M/S of two women, Susan Summerville and Mary Paul, working on flowers at the table; Susan, on the left, is seen wrapping wire around some leafs to make a flower shape. M/S of the four women (the fourth is Betty Kirkwood) working aw