This is a film made by Leeds amateur filmmaker Alan Sidi, showing a typical family Christmas in the Sidi household.  This one shows the family at their home in Leeds, Val D’or, with Alan’s son Paul, and daughter Fiona.  It also shows a market and shops at Christmas time. Title – Christmas The film begins in the evening in a Christmas market, with shoppers going around the stalls, with close ups of the fruit and veg., turkeys, and other traditional Christmas goods.  The shop ‘Sea Land Foods’...

This is a film made by Leeds amateur filmmaker Alan Sidi, showing a typical family Christmas in the Sidi household.  This one shows the family at their home in Leeds, Val D’or, with Alan’s son Paul, and daughter Fiona.  It also shows a market and shops at Christmas time. Title – Christmas The film begins in the evening in a Christmas market, with shoppers going around the stalls, with close ups of the fruit and veg., turkeys, and other traditional Christmas goods.  The shop ‘Sea Land Foods’ has a notice promoting their Christmas Club, again showing close ups of the food on sale, along with the prices, such as a turkey for 43’6.  Shoppers walk around a Fine Fare supermarket.  Toys are on display in the window of Woolworths: model cars, airfix, tiddly winks.  In the centre of the market is a large Christmas tree. There is a Christmas tree in someone’s home, next to the stairs, adorned with cards.  A boy sits at a toy desk.  His older sister puts away her doll and takes him up to bed.  They lie asleep in bed with stockings pinned up on their bedside tables.  Father arrives in his dressing gown and pins up a stocking filled with sweets.  The girl awakes to find her stocking, and downstairs the toys are on display, including a rocking horse and a train set.  The girl comes down in her red Christmas dress to discover the presents, already unwrapped.  There is an outside shot of the house, Val D’or.  Inside the presents are stacked underneath the Christmas trees, while the dog sleeps.  The children come to collect their presents, with Mrs Sidi sporting a Santa beard.  Fiona opens a present, while Paul sits in his new push car, ‘Royal Prince’.  They are joined by other members of the family who collect their presents. One of them, possibly Mrs Sidi’s brother, is in military uniform.  Paul sits at the piano, trying to play.  A man in a white jacket serves them tea at the table.  Fiona pulls a cracker and they tuck into various cakes. The End