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ANY FRIDAY AFTERNOON

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WORK ID: NEFA 22153 (Master Record)

TitleYearDate
ANY FRIDAY AFTERNOON1948 1948-01-01
Details Original Format: 9.5mm
Colour: Black & White
Sound: Silent
Duration: 3 mins 23 secs
Credits: Individual: Peter Dobing
Genre: Home Movie

Subject: Family Life



Summary
A narrative-based home movie produced by Peter Dobing of his aunt and cousins on a regular Friday afternoon visit to his family home in the village of Haughton-le-Skerne, now part of Darlington, for tea after his sister Ann finishes school for the week.
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A narrative-based home movie produced by Peter Dobing of his aunt and cousins on a regular Friday afternoon visit to his family home in the village of Haughton-le-Skerne, now part of Darlington, for tea after his sister Ann finishes school for the week. Title: Family Films Title:  ‘Any Friday Afternoon’ The film-maker's aunt pushes a pram with baby inside it along Salters Lane South. She is also holding the hand of a small boy. They arrive at the film-maker's home. She tries the...
A narrative-based home movie produced by Peter Dobing of his aunt and cousins on a regular Friday afternoon visit to his family home in the village of Haughton-le-Skerne, now part of Darlington, for tea after his sister Ann finishes school for the week. Title: Family Films Title:  ‘Any Friday Afternoon’ The film-maker's aunt pushes a pram with baby inside it along Salters Lane South. She is also holding the hand of a small boy. They arrive at the film-maker's home. She tries the door, but it doesn’t open so she knocks. After a moment the door opens and she goes inside lifting the pram through the door. The small boy runs along after her and also goes inside. A clock on the living room mantelpiece reads 4.13pm. Title: Off to meet Ann The aunt and cousin walk down the drive and go out onto the road. Close-up of snowdrops (?) Two girls, including Ann, and a small boy are playing together on the corner of Salters Avenue and Salters Lane South. They stop and the two girls take the hands of the small boy as they start walking along Salters Lane South towards the Dobing family home. The young boy is now seated on someon'e knee. Portrait shots at the dining table follow as everyone is gathered for afternoon tea. At the dining table, the aunt sips from her cup. The baby is seated on someone's knee. Ann is nearby. The film-maker himself takes a bite from a biscuit. Various shots of individuals around the table follow. Title: Tea is over and… Title: … it’s time to go Portrait shots follow of the little boy, young girl reading, baby back in the pram, and the aunt smiling and acknowledging it's time to go. Title: … it’s time to go Title: That’s all folk!
Context
Darlington native Peter Haliwell Dobing (1927-2018) began a lifetime passion for amateur filmmaking in the late 1940s and early 1950s producing 14 often humorous 9.5mm home movies featuring his extended family. Considerable thought and skill went into the production of home movies such as the hand-tinted   A Very Happy Christmas (1950) which not only featured his parents, sister Ann, aunt, uncle and nephews in front of the camera, but also their contribution behind the camera. Sadly his early...
Darlington native Peter Haliwell Dobing (1927-2018) began a lifetime passion for amateur filmmaking in the late 1940s and early 1950s producing 14 often humorous 9.5mm home movies featuring his extended family. Considerable thought and skill went into the production of home movies such as the hand-tinted   A Very Happy Christmas (1950) which not only featured his parents, sister Ann, aunt, uncle and nephews in front of the camera, but also their contribution behind the camera. Sadly his early film making career came to an end when he contracted tuberculosis and was hospitalised for a year.

It wasn’t until he met his partner George Theaker in 1960, and together they became members of the Darlington Cine Club in 1975, that his passion for filmmaking re-ignited and together they produced a number of interesting amateur documentaries on various subjects of local interests including the 150th anniversary of the Stockton and Darlington railway in 1975, Captain James Cook and the Tees Cottage Pumping station. The Darlington Cine Club was set up in 1965, a splinter group of the Darlington Camera Club established in 1936.

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Information provided by depositor George Theaker 2018 - 2020
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