This is a film made by a member of the Camping Club of Great Britain and Ireland of various camping events, including a publicity event in Richmond, a visit to the Sunshine Holiday Camp on Hayling Island, and a National Festival of Lanterns at Newby Hall, Ripon. The film begins showing a publicity event for the Camping Club of Great Britain and Ireland which includes display boards and a procession through Folkestone, past the ‘The British Queen’ pub.  There is a campsite overlooking the sea....

This is a film made by a member of the Camping Club of Great Britain and Ireland of various camping events, including a publicity event in Richmond, a visit to the Sunshine Holiday Camp on Hayling Island, and a National Festival of Lanterns at Newby Hall, Ripon. The film begins showing a publicity event for the Camping Club of Great Britain and Ireland which includes display boards and a procession through Folkestone, past the ‘The British Queen’ pub.  There is a campsite overlooking the sea.  At the campsite the campers have a race, which is filmed backwards, followed by a children’s sack race.  Everyone gathers around for a dog show.  There are some very silly races, much larking about and a very impressive fancy dress parade.  The campers put on a performance in their fancy dress, including an Arabian harem, a Native American scene, an African game hunter and Atlantic explorers – with the arrival of some newlyweds.  Then mayhem breaks out as the Native Americans attack the harem and there is a general melee with flour bombs.  After this the children visit the Whitley Donkey Team which has set up a pen in the corner of the field, with some pony and trek rides and races, followed by a children’s fancy dress and more historical slapstick performances. There is a sign for ‘Sunshine Holiday Camp’, on Hayling Island, to which we are taken by a speeded up car ride.  Here there are some model boats, and our holidaymakers take a boat trip along the cast.  Then the film returns back to the Camping Club promotion in Richmond.  A man tests out his inflatable bed.   The final section features the National Festival of Lanterns at Newby Hall, where a woman feeds a peacock.  There is a view of rolling hills.  The campers have a picnic at the side of the road.  And then again back on a beach with some larking about as they change into their swimsuits before returning to Newby Hall campsite.  Here, there is a parade led by a band and followed adult men and women dressed up boy scout and girl guide uniforms respectively.  There are other themed floats and costumes, such including Japanese and Vikings, with some on Sedan chairs, at the end of which they have a slapstick race.  Afterwards a family is shown packing up their tent, and a bishop poses for the camera as the film comes to an end.