Metadata
WORK ID: NEFA 20507 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
NORTHUMBERLAND JOURNEY | 1967 | 1967-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: Super 8 Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 25 mins 20 secs Genre: Home Movie Subject: COUNTRYSIDE / LANDSCAPES RURAL LIFE TRAVEL |
Summary An amateur home movie recording travel in Northumberland, principally in Alnwick, and in Scotland. |
Description
An amateur home movie recording travel in Northumberland, principally in Alnwick, and in Scotland.
A boy walks around on a golf course.
A man and a boy skim stones into the sea from a beach.
Travelling shot, by, car, passing through Alnwick town centre: Hotspur Tower onto Bondgate Within, then passing along Narrowgate – past Alnwick Castle – onto Bailiffgate. Further travelling shot past Alnwick Castle.
Views from an agricultural show, possibly Alnwick Show. A white-coat-wearing man...
An amateur home movie recording travel in Northumberland, principally in Alnwick, and in Scotland.
A boy walks around on a golf course.
A man and a boy skim stones into the sea from a beach.
Travelling shot, by, car, passing through Alnwick town centre: Hotspur Tower onto Bondgate Within, then passing along Narrowgate – past Alnwick Castle – onto Bailiffgate. Further travelling shot past Alnwick Castle.
Views from an agricultural show, possibly Alnwick Show. A white-coat-wearing man exhibits a prize-winning cow, around which two girls gather to pet the animal. View of a prize-winning bull. View of a show horse. Vaux brewery’s team of dray horses pull a dray wagon around the showground. A team of bulls is exhibited. A white horse is loaded into a horse box, in the background a Vaux truck is visible.
Views of riders and beagle hunting dogs touring the showground.
Vintage cars. A steam traction engine.
Ducks swim on a muddy pond.
Views of folk wrestling matches taking place on a grassy paddock. The paddock is cordoned off by a string, behind which stands a line of flat-cap-wearing spectators.
Views of historical re-enactment actors wearing historical and traditional dress tending market stalls, “Olde Cake Shoppe”, a Phelps wind-up music box.
View of a waterfall. A boy climbs over a series of stepping stones to cross a stream or river.
Panoramic view of a rural hill landscape.
Brief shot of a Scottish soldier standing guard; he wears a kilt and sporran.
Travelling shots travelling along a motorway towards the Forth Road Bridge. The car passes through a toll kiosk and crosses the Forth Road Bridge. Panoramic view from the banks of the Firth of Forth of the Forth Road Bridge, and the Forth Rail Bridge.
Panoramic and travelling shots of rural landscape and empty country roads. A series of shots record views of castle ruins.
Model or toy motor boats are floated on a pond. Views of the model ships on podiums by the side of the lake.
A royal motorcade drives along a town centre road; very brief view of the Queen waving as her car passes. View, afterwards, of a marching military band wearing kilts and playing bagpipes.
Planes and a helicopter – including grounded historic World War II craft – in flight during an air show.
A man plays with a dog in a garden, pulling on a stick which the dog grips in its mouth.
Two brief shots of a snowy scene: people build a snowman.
The film ends with a brief shot of the Blackpool Illuminations (?), or civic Christmas lighting and decoration.
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