This amateur film was made by a Sheffield filmmaker, Kenneth Tofield.  It shows his son John on his 5th birthday having a party and playing with his friends in their back garden. The film begins showing birthday cards on a table with a vase of flowers.  In the garden the birthday boy takes the cover off his new tricycle and gives his mum a thank you kiss, showing the inscription on the card.  John rides off on the trike around the garden, bordered by daffodils, with his mum looking out from...

This amateur film was made by a Sheffield filmmaker, Kenneth Tofield.  It shows his son John on his 5th birthday having a party and playing with his friends in their back garden. The film begins showing birthday cards on a table with a vase of flowers.  In the garden the birthday boy takes the cover off his new tricycle and gives his mum a thank you kiss, showing the inscription on the card.  John rides off on the trike around the garden, bordered by daffodils, with his mum looking out from the kitchen window.  John goes off to greet his small friend at the front of the house, and his friend also has a go on the trike while John goes on his scooter.  He then greets two other children arriving with their mother.  Now a group of children are playing together in the garden, chasing each other around.   Their respective mothers, and, presumably, a grandmother, watch as they play. They then go into the house and sit around the dining table where they eat ice cream, cakes and biscuits.  Mother lights the candles on the birthday cake, and John blows them out before having a slice.  There are then close ups of the daffodils in the garden and other spring flowers, and also birds in the branches of the trees, which are just coming in to bud.  This is followed by raindrops falling in puddles and rain water gushing out of a drainage pipe.  Again the flowers are shown, this time with rain drops, including bluebells and irises. His mother helps John put on his new school uniform and satchel, and together they walk off, with father waving goodbye at the gate, as the film comes to an end.