Metadata
WORK ID: NEFA 20558 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
WOODHALL SPA: WEDDING 1940: EXHIBITION PARK: PADDY'S: TOWN MOOR | 1934-1940 | 1934-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: 9.5mm Colour: Black & White / Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 12 mins 30 secs Credits: Frank Wilson, Edward Dean Wilson Genre: Home Movie Subject: CELEBRATIONS / CEREMONIES COUNTRYSIDE / LANDSCAPES ENTERTAINMENT / LEISURE FAMILY LIFE |
Summary This amateur home movie compilation includes family excursions in the Newcastle area and the wedding of the filmmaker's brother, Edgar Dean Wilson during wartime, probably in Derbyshire. |
Description
This amateur home movie compilation includes family excursions in the Newcastle area and the wedding of the filmmaker's brother, Edgar Dean Wilson during wartime, probably in Derbyshire.
Title: Candid Camera Shots
A group of men and women sit in deck chairs. A man walks down the road carrying a back pack.
A brief view follows of a castle with a moat. Two women and a man walk along in the countryside. They walk over a bridge looking down at the river.
There follows a close up of a...
This amateur home movie compilation includes family excursions in the Newcastle area and the wedding of the filmmaker's brother, Edgar Dean Wilson during wartime, probably in Derbyshire.
Title: Candid Camera Shots
A group of men and women sit in deck chairs. A man walks down the road carrying a back pack.
A brief view follows of a castle with a moat. Two women and a man walk along in the countryside. They walk over a bridge looking down at the river.
There follows a close up of a young couple.
Title: Wedding of Miss C G Hunt, MPS and E D Wilson.
In this film, the groom, Edgar Dean Wilson, the filmmaker's brother, is in uniform as he and the bride leave the church and get into a car. The couple are driven away. In the front garden of a house, the newly weds pose for the camera. Another couple also poses for the camera, the man also in uniform. Family groups gather together for the remaining photographs.
Title: Beauty Spots of Derbyshire
This concentrates on a number of stone buildings in a village. A woman enters a cottage through a garden gate . General views show a terrace of stone cottages.
Title: Candid Camera Shots - Taken In Dufaycolor
A woman comes out of a doorway, which is surrounded by deep pink flowers. A woman and man in military uniform pose for the camera. General views of a church and river ends this short film sequence.
Title: The End. A Frandean Production
Title; The Frandean Gazette
This section opens with a baby in a pram playing with an empty box. The baby points at the camera, then plays with a doll and hairbrush. Placed on the ground, the baby plays in a garden in the sunshine.
Title: September Janet 1944
The boy seen earlier and another girl [a sister?] pose for the camera. They play with some toys. The baby plays with other toys and walks around the garden and throws a ball.
A man [father?] picks up the baby, who has grown into a toddler and plays in the garden with a small pram.
The film cuts to a miniature railway. Adults and schoolboys make up the passengers enjoying the ride on the scaled down train. The film shows the engine and train reversing back along the track.
The film cuts to a much older Janet, the baby seen earlier in the film. A woman pushes the young girl on a swing, in the background a boating lake.
The film cuts back to the miniature railway, a different engine the Belle of New York, pulls the passengers.
The film cuts to a small motorized model boat on a pond or lake in a park.Two girls pose for the camera holding the boat. This is probably filmed at Paddy's Pond, Paddy Freeman’s Park, Heaton, Newcastle.
In a field, adults and children play together with a ball. The young girl seen earlier holds another model for the camera, this time a model airplane or glider.
The same girl rides a tricycle up and down a garden path. She tries a scooter then plays ball with her mother.
[dark footage]
The next wedding shows a wedding preparation or reception with guests and bride and groom. A car drives away afterwards.
The film ends at a merry-go-round ride at a fairground, probably on Newcastle Town Moor during the Hoppings On one of the model horses, a father sits with his daughter, the girl seen earlier. Her mother sits on another horse.
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