Christmas Parcels (1970)

Unused / unissued material - Various shots of lots of parcels - some seem to be opened. Joint of meat, handbags, Tonka toys, slippers, electric drill, doll - all appear to have fallen out of badly wrapped parcels. A Post Office worker comes to inspect the pile of damaged and poorly covered parcels (presumably sent for Christmas). A damaged parcel is re-wrapped by another worker. VS of lots of parcels on the move in large postal sorting depot. Nearly all the workers are women and most are Afro-Caribbean. VS of parcels being thrown into sorting baskets. Travel shot along another sorting bay - mainly men working here. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont