Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 5427 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
WOBURN NATIONAL FESTIVAL OF LANTERNS | 1960s | 1960-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: Standard 8 Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 20 mins 50 secs Subject: ENTERTAINMENT / LEISURE |
Summary This is a film made by a member of the Camping Club of Great Britain and Ireland of various camping events, including two National Festival of Lanterns, one at Woburn and another at Newby Hall, North Yorkshire. |
Description
This is a film made by a member of the Camping Club of Great Britain and Ireland of various camping events, including two National Festival of Lanterns, one at Woburn and another at Newby Hall, North Yorkshire.
The film begins showing tents in a field on display. A man is taking photos of them. There is a banner marking a publicity event for the Camping Club of Great Britain and Ireland, with display boards. A brown dachshund is running around, and a farmer cuts the grass in the camping...
This is a film made by a member of the Camping Club of Great Britain and Ireland of various camping events, including two National Festival of Lanterns, one at Woburn and another at Newby Hall, North Yorkshire.
The film begins showing tents in a field on display. A man is taking photos of them. There is a banner marking a publicity event for the Camping Club of Great Britain and Ireland, with display boards. A brown dachshund is running around, and a farmer cuts the grass in the camping field, which has a rainbow over it. The campers have formed a circle sat on chairs, while some women in the middle pour out tea. Tents and caravans are dotted around the field; possibly a London District Association weekend.
Back at home a woman is tending her front garden. Elsewhere a man descends some step to an apartment block and gets into a mini, with the dachshund watching. Other tenants emerge from their basement flat to look. The film switches to a field where a few people are attempting to feed some deer. Then to a National Festival of Lanterns. There is a fancy dress parade at the campsite, which looks like a historical pageant parading around the campsite, with entries from different places from across the country, including a large variety of subjects: the Romans, witches, and the Humber Bridge, possibly at Newby Hall. A couple of women relax inside their caravan.
The film switches to a street where a father holds up his new-born baby. Then to a field packed with deer, and with the dachshund. A man walks across near a lake with a bird of prey on his arm. There is a campsite in the Lakes, where a group of campers sit outside a caravan having tea.
At the Woburn National Festival of Lanterns, there is another parade, headed by ‘The Wild West Comes to Woburn’. The West Sussex Club come dressed as monks. This is followed by mass country dancing. After the festivities are over there campers relax next to their camper vans. There is some footage of harvesting (over exposed). There are more gatherings around the camper vans and general milling around the campsite and the film comes to an end.
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