Metadata
WORK ID: NEFA 22161 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
FAMILY MAGAZINE NUMBER FOUR: POP'S PIP; PUSH OVER | 1951 | 1951-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: 9.5mm Colour: Black & White Sound: Silent Duration: 4 mins 16 secs Credits: Individual: Peter Dobing Genre: Home Movie Subject: Sport Family Life |
Summary Two short narrative based home movies produced by Peter Dobing and featuring members of his extended family. The family enjoy spring time in the garden at the family home in the village of Haughton-le-Skerne, now part of Darlington. In the second film Peter and sister Ann take a bike ride together through the countryside. |
Description
Two short narrative based home movies produced by Peter Dobing and featuring members of his extended family. The family enjoy spring time in the garden at the family home in the village of Haughton-le-Skerne, now part of Darlington. In the second film Peter and sister Ann take a bike ride together through the countryside.
Title: Family Magazine Number Four
Title: Pop’s Pip
The film opens on Peter’s father opening a window and looking out. He comes out of the house into the garden walking...
Two short narrative based home movies produced by Peter Dobing and featuring members of his extended family. The family enjoy spring time in the garden at the family home in the village of Haughton-le-Skerne, now part of Darlington. In the second film Peter and sister Ann take a bike ride together through the countryside.
Title: Family Magazine Number Four
Title: Pop’s Pip
The film opens on Peter’s father opening a window and looking out. He comes out of the house into the garden walking towards an apple tree planted nearby. There are buds growing on the tree indicating spring.
He calls to his daughter Ann who runs across the lawn to see the tree. His wife comes over and Ann pulls down a branch for her to look at. General views of the three of them looking at the tree. Peter’s aunt, uncle and cousins admire spring growth on the tree. Ann picks up one of the children holding her closer to the tree.
A girl riding a child’s tricycle races across the lawn and downwards towards the house followed by Peter’s uncle carrying the other boy on his shoulders. On the lawn Ann plays with the small girl and her doll.
The visiting relatives walk off home together along Salters Lane South. Ann appears at the front gate and waves goodbye.
Title: Push Over
This second film begins with Peter and Ann coming down the drive onto Salters Lane South pushing their bicycles. As they climb on and ride away their mother appears at the front gate waving them goodbye.
A strong wind blows through trees and grass as Peter rides along a country road. He signals to his sister to catch up and she appears riding slower.
General views of Peter and Ann riding along the country road with Ann trying to catch up.
Ann sees her brother’s bike resting against a fence and the farm gate beside it open. She rests her bike against the fence and goes into he the field wiping her brow
Sitting on a log nearby is Peter. Ann wipes her brow again and walks over to her brother who is seen speaking and pointing to the boggy pond behind him.
Title: It’s cooler inside!
Ann pushes Peter over the log knocking him to the ground. The film ends on a view between Peter’s feet of Ann looking down and sticking her tongue out at him.
Title: Family Magazine. The End
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. References: Information provided by depositor George Theaker 2018 - 2020 |