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DetailsOriginal Format: 16mm Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 51 secs Credits: Representative Council for Newcastle Jewry
Genre: Amateur
Subject: Sport
Summary This amateur film footage records a sports day prize giving event at a sports ground off Barrack Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, probably in the late 1950s and connected to Maccabi House sports and social club on Windsor Crescent. This film is one in a collection of films recording life in the Jewish community of Newcastle, made by five independent film-makers between 1937 and 1962.
Description
This amateur film footage records a sports day prize giving event at a sports ground off Barrack Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, probably in the late 1950s and connected to Maccabi House sports and social club on Windsor Crescent. This film is one in a collection of films recording life in the Jewish community of Newcastle, made by five independent film-makers between 1937 and 1962.
Portrait shot of a mother and father attending the sports day prize giving event.
The prizes are awarded by Emma...
This amateur film footage records a sports day prize giving event at a sports ground off Barrack Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, probably in the late 1950s and connected to Maccabi House sports and social club on Windsor Crescent. This film is one in a collection of films recording life in the Jewish community of Newcastle, made by five independent film-makers between 1937 and 1962.
Portrait shot of a mother and father attending the sports day prize giving event.
The prizes are awarded by Emma Goldman, who is wearing a posh hat for the presentation. The Maccabi Chairman, Benny Speker, and the Maccabi President David Bloom are in attendance.
A succession of young men, boys, and young girls collect their awards as the small crowd of family and friends are gathered close by to watch. They include Joe Gellert, David Speker, Austen Science, Peter Mickler, Howard Gold, John Josephs, Jeffrey Cawson, Alan Gold, Ralf Gibbons.
Context Filmed in the 1950s at a sports ground on Newcastle’s Barrack Road, this is a colourful fragment of Jewish life – proud mothers and fathers watch prizes awarded to young men and women on an annual Maccabi sports day. The Maccabi Association was set up to promote the active participation in sports and education of the young Jewish community, seen as a means of assimilation into English society and a way to assert Jewish identity and counter anti-Semitic sentiment.
