Amateur Wine Making (1958)

Tewin, Hertfordshire. L/S of a garden with lots of pink and red flowers, Mrs Bessie Dodd enters the frame carrying a small wicker basket with red rose petals in. She starts to pick some more petals from the roses. M/S of her picking the petals and putting them in her basket. C/U of the roses with her hand coming in and picking them. C/U of her face, there are pretty flowers in the background. M/S as she finishes picking the petals and walks away. The narrator suggests a few things that could be done with rose petals once they have started to fade, like throwing them at weddings or pressing them in books. Interior. C/U of another basket on a table, this one contains lots of bramble tips, hands are seen picking through the leaves and breaking some off. M/S to reveal the hands belong to Mrs Peggy Johns, who is putting them into a large pan. She is in a kitchen and there is another lady in the background picking up a cup and filling it from a keg on the windowsill. There are various bottles and
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