Metadata
WORK ID: NEFA 21961 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
NOTTINGHAM AND REDCAR | 1960 | 1960-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: Standard 8 Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 10 mins Credits: Individual: Neesham Genre: Home Movie Subject: CELEBRATIONS / CEREMONIES ENTERTAINMENT / LEISURE SEASIDE |
Summary A home movie made by the Neesham family of Redcar begins in Nottingham with views of the Trent Building of Nottingham University and a Scottish marching band performing in the grounds of Nottingham Castle. A visit to the grounds of Wollaton Hall is followed by a procession of decorative floats, costumed youngsters and juvenile jazz band march through a street in Redcar. The film ends with the family on the beach at Redcar. |
Description
A home movie made by the Neesham family of Redcar begins in Nottingham with views of the Trent Building of Nottingham University and a Scottish marching band performing in the grounds of Nottingham Castle. A visit to the grounds of Wollaton Hall is followed by a procession of decorative floats, costumed youngsters and juvenile jazz band march through a street in Redcar. The film ends with the family on the beach at Redcar.
The film opens on views of a baby in a pram playing for the camera....
A home movie made by the Neesham family of Redcar begins in Nottingham with views of the Trent Building of Nottingham University and a Scottish marching band performing in the grounds of Nottingham Castle. A visit to the grounds of Wollaton Hall is followed by a procession of decorative floats, costumed youngsters and juvenile jazz band march through a street in Redcar. The film ends with the family on the beach at Redcar.
The film opens on views of a baby in a pram playing for the camera. The film cuts to show a man and a child feeding mute Swans and ducks on the river Trent near to Nottingham University. A woman approaches and sits beside them. General view of the Trent Building, part of Nottingham University campus.
The film cuts to show decorative flowerbeds in a park and man standing nearby. A woman sits on a bench close by and waves at the camera. The film changes to show deer feeding in a field beside a large tree. A woman approaches them and takes a photograph of the deer.
A view follows of two white rabbits in a homemade hutch made from a wooden crate cuts to show a Scottish marching pipe band performing for a crowd in the grounds on Nottingham Castle.
General views of a baby in a pram are followed by three geese waddling around the lawn possibly at Wollaton Hall near Nottingham. A woman walks across the lawn and the film cuts to show her walking through an ornate garden. Another woman pushes a pushchair along a rocky path in the garden, the film cuts to the women seen previously playing with the child in the pushchair.
Another view shows the woman holding the child on the bonnet of a Morris Minor car. She and another woman stand at the base of large tree.
The film changes to show a steam traction engine pulling a decorative float along a road in Redcar as part of a procession. A number of young people in costume follow behind the float and crowds line the path watching the parade. Following behind comes a majorette leads a juvenile jazz band along the road behind a banner.
Following next comes a small group of young women wearing red dresses with white aprons and behind them an Ovaltine van. A man goes past dressed as a pantomime horse. The procession ends on a series of juvenile jazz bands marching past including the ‘Hartlepool Legionaires’ and ‘Ashington Gay Geordies’.
Along the seafront at Redcar a woman walks towards camera. The film ends with views of the family on the beach.
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