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DetailsOriginal Format: 16mm Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 1 min 25 secs Credits: Joe Granton, Frank Goldman, Jack Messing, Aubrey Neusenbaum, Monty Rosen
Representative Council for Newcastle Jewry Genre: Amateur
Subject: Travel
Summary Amateur film footage of Friendship Club members (a Jewish social club for older people) on a boat trip on the River Tyne, with shots of members in the boat cabin, and on deck in the sunlight. A woman begins to take a tray of fudge or toffee round people on the trip.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 Amateur film footage of Friendship Club members (a Jewish social club for older people) on a boat trip on the River Tyne, with shots of members in the boat cabin, and on deck in the sunlight. A woman begins to take a tray of fudge or toffee round people on the trip.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.
Context
All aboard a Tyne ferry, the Friendship Club of Newcastle take a pleasure trip down river in glorious summer sunshine.
Filmed on board a ferry in glorious Kodachrome hues, this is a rare colour portrait of the Newcastle Friendship Club, a social club for elderly Jewish men and women and part of a national movement founded in 1950. Family and friends are in high spirits for a cruise down the River Tyne to Ryton Willows in the balmy sunshine.
The ferry service was operated by the Mid Tyne...
All aboard a Tyne ferry, the Friendship Club of Newcastle take a pleasure trip down river in glorious summer sunshine.
Filmed on board a ferry in glorious Kodachrome hues, this is a rare colour portrait of the Newcastle Friendship Club, a social club for elderly Jewish men and women and part of a national movement founded in 1950. Family and friends are in high spirits for a cruise down the River Tyne to Ryton Willows in the balmy sunshine.
The ferry service was operated by the Mid Tyne Ferry Company and ran between Low Walker and Hebburn from 1939, serving to transport workers to and from an engineering company and three big shipyards including Swan Hunters, as well as pleasure cruises for day trippers. As Tyneside’s heavy industry declined, passenger numbers reduced and the last ferry ran in July 1986. This short reel of amateur footage is a companion to film of the picnic at Ryton Willows,
