Metadata
WORK ID: NEFA 20161 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
STAN SMITH HOME MOVIE NO. 1 | 1950 | 1950-01-02 |
Details
Original Format: 9.5mm Colour: Black & White Sound: Silent Duration: 12 mins 9 secs Credits: Individuals: Stan Smith Genre: Home Movie Subject: Seaside Family Life Entertainment/Leisure |
Summary A home movie produced by Stanley Smith, one member of the vocal group The Five Smith Brothers, featuring his wife Molly, new-born daughter Linda as well as brothers Alfred, Harold, Martin and Royston along with their wives and children. As was traditional while performing the families all lived together in caravans and are filmed living on several different sites including a piece of waste ground in a town, in a field at a caravan site and on a farm. A lot of the film features the brothers and their families living happily together and begins with everyone being introduced to Linda. The film also features the brothers and their families enjoying a meal in a restaurant and meeting an unknown man who is believed to be, like them, a fellow performer well-known on the stage during this period. |
Description
A home movie produced by Stanley Smith, one member of the vocal group The Five Smith Brothers, featuring his wife Molly, new-born daughter Linda as well as brothers Alfred, Harold, Martin and Royston along with their wives and children. As was traditional while performing the families all lived together in caravans and are filmed living on several different sites including a piece of waste ground in a town, in a field at a caravan site and on a farm. A lot of the film features the brothers...
A home movie produced by Stanley Smith, one member of the vocal group The Five Smith Brothers, featuring his wife Molly, new-born daughter Linda as well as brothers Alfred, Harold, Martin and Royston along with their wives and children. As was traditional while performing the families all lived together in caravans and are filmed living on several different sites including a piece of waste ground in a town, in a field at a caravan site and on a farm. A lot of the film features the brothers and their families living happily together and begins with everyone being introduced to Linda. The film also features the brothers and their families enjoying a meal in a restaurant and meeting an unknown man who is believed to be, like them, a fellow performer well-known on the stage during this period.
Molly Smith sits beside a caravan reading a newspaper, beside her a small terrier dog comes over and she begins to stroke its fur. She holds up the dog in its hindlegs and points at the camera.
Molly carrying her baby daughter Linda in her arms walks along a suburban street, a couple believed to be one of Stanley’s brothers and his wife, appear and stand beside Molly and the baby. Linda in held in the air, she smiles and laughs.
In the back garden a second couple play with Linda tossing her in the air, Linda smiles and laughs. A third man, another of Stanley’s brothers, holds Linda, and plays with her pointing at the camera. Molly comes over and taking Linda and pretends to make her walk on the grass in front of them.
Three women, including Molly, stand beside a car chatting, one of the women shows off one her leg suggestively. One of Stanley’s brothers comes over and lifts Molly into the air, another appears holding two newspapers showing headlines of one to them to the camera. One of the couples gets into the car and leaves.
Standing in the doorway of her caravan Molly holds a hand mirror to help her put on makeup. She sees the camera and smiles. Above the caravan window writing that reads ‘Maison Blanche’, inside the caravan a budgerigar in a cage.
Beside another caravan a small boy in cowboy boots draws his toy gun and hopping around. Molly wearing a coat walks past changing to two men, one on RAF uniform, standing around caravan. In a car parked nearby two small boys, one sitting in the driver's seat the other in the back. The terrier seen earlier walks around. A man looks out from his caravan as the boy in cowboy boots as he walks past, the terrier sniffs around the site.
At a different camp site in a field beside their caravans the Smith Brothers and their families sit around relaxing in the sun. A budgerigar in a cage changes to one of the children walks around a caravan being filmed by one of the brothers. Another brother plays a musical instrument.
The Smith brothers and their wives take a boat trip across a harbour, in the distance a war ship. The travel past a small port or town with a building, possibly a lifeboat station, built on stilts. In the background steep cliffs with radio transmitters on the top. One of the brothers stands in the boat talking.
In a farmyard beside machinery and her caravan Molly hangs washing on a line. One of the brothers fills a churn with water from a tap built into a wall. Seeing the camera, he smiles and skips like a child back to his caravan.
Molly smiling and staring directly into the camera changes to one of the brothers painting the roof of his caravan. Someone plays with the budgerigar in its cage changes to Molly coming out of her caravan, she waves before heading back inside where she plays with the budgie by placing a piece of food in her mouth allowing the bird to peck at it.
Besides a set of steps two terrier dogs sit relaxing, they roll on the ground playing up for the cameraperson. A man, possibly one of the Smith brothers, comes around the corner of a building and performs a silly walk for the camera.
In a restaurant, the walls covered in celebrity portrait photographs, a man stands beside the Smith brothers and their families sitting around several tables. He shakes hands with one of the brothers before pointing out a piece of paper, possibly a menu. He holds what appear to be two uncooked chickens in his hand, he pretends to pour drink into a glass from an empty bottle and has a young woman come sit on his lap. Around him the Smith brothers and their families laugh. Standing again he hold a small girl in his arms.
On a golf course one of the brothers practices his swing using a wood, two other brothers look through brush on the edge of the fairway for a ball. Now out of the brush the other brothers t-off.
A cartoon of an octopus changes to Molly Smith sitting on a rug on a rocky beach folding clothes. The terrier comes over and sits next to her. Around them other people relaxing on the beach.
Back at a caravan site Molly washes the windows of her caravan, nearby another woman stands in the doorway of a mobile home reading a newspaper while behind her a third steps out of her camper. Looking in a caravan window a man inside shaving, he sees the camera and smiles. Molly continues to clean her windows, one of the Smith brothers carries a suitcase towards an outbuilding and the film ends on the family terrier sniff through undergrowth.
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