Metadata
WORK ID: NEFA 22343 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
SUNBEAM; OLIVE TREES | 1932 | 1932-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: 16mm Colour: Black & White Sound: Silent Duration: 16 mins 37 secs Genre: Amateur Subject: Travel |
Summary An amateur film by Elizabeth, Lady Knott begins with views of an olive grove on the island of Majorca. This is followingby a picnic with friends and views along a rocky coastline. The film returns to the Port of Palma where Sir James Knott visits his friend Walter Runciman, 1st Barron Runciman aboard his luxury three masted schooner Seabeam. Elizabeth’s Rolls Royce is filmed being loaded aboard Sir James motor yacht Princess followed by a visit San Franciso Monastery. The final part of the film shows the Princess leaving Palma followed by a train journey and ending with views across the Rue de Rivoli beside the Tuileries Gardens in Paris. |
Description
An amateur film by Elizabeth, Lady Knott begins with views of an olive grove on the island of Majorca. This is followingby a picnic with friends and views along a rocky coastline. The film returns to the Port of Palma where Sir James Knott visits his friend Walter Runciman, 1st Barron Runciman aboard his luxury three masted schooner Seabeam. Elizabeth’s Rolls Royce is filmed being loaded aboard Sir James motor yacht Princess followed by a visit San Franciso Monastery. The final part of the...
An amateur film by Elizabeth, Lady Knott begins with views of an olive grove on the island of Majorca. This is followingby a picnic with friends and views along a rocky coastline. The film returns to the Port of Palma where Sir James Knott visits his friend Walter Runciman, 1st Barron Runciman aboard his luxury three masted schooner Seabeam. Elizabeth’s Rolls Royce is filmed being loaded aboard Sir James motor yacht Princess followed by a visit San Franciso Monastery. The final part of the film shows the Princess leaving Palma followed by a train journey and ending with views across the Rue de Rivoli beside the Tuileries Gardens in Paris.
The film begins with views if various knotted trees in an olive grove. A man riding a small wagon pulled by a donkey rides past. He speaks with Elizabeth as she stands beside her Rolls Royce. The film cuts to her picking flowers in a field.
Along a dockside at Palma Sir James Knott in a sailor suit comes along a gangplank onto a ship. The film cuts to back to the olive grove and poppies in a field blowing in the wind and an olive tree growing out of a stonewall beside a road.
Along the road views of sheep which rush past up a hillside. The film cuts to show a view of a river or estuary leading into the sea. The camera pans left to show a group having a picnic behind a sandbank. Elizabeth gives scraps of food to a small dog. General views of high cliffs beside the sea and three people coming down a set of concrete steps onto a jetty leading out into the water.
In the harbour at Palma Sir James Knott is helped aboard the luxury three-masted topsail-yard schooner Sunbeam. Sir James poses next to Walter Runciman, 1st Barron Runciman, the owner of Sunbeam. On the deck Elizabeth and another woman chat with Walter Runciman.
There are general views showing both Sunbeam as well as Sir James motor yacht Princess docked nearby. A small crowd on the dock watch on as the crew of the Sunbeam make ready to depart. From the quayside views of the schooner making its way out of the harbour. This is followed by views of a speedboat races around the harbour.
Views of Elizabeth’s Rolls Royce being loaded into the hold of Princess by the crew. A cook looks out of a side door watching the proceedings.
The film cuts to show a family group posing beside a well inside the cloisters of San Franciso Monastery. The film changes to show two women looking around the well. An old woman walk to the well and draws water from it. She then proceed to sweep the ground.
Back on the dockside a crowd watch as Sir James gives instructions to the crew of Princess for departure. The film cuts to show birds in a cage, the anchor being lowered and water coming out of the bilge pump. Back on the deck, a man in a kilt plays a set of bagpipes.
The film cuts to show a view from the rear carriage of a railway train as it travels along the tracks. Sitting in a chair Sir James sits reading a book. He looks over and smiles at Elizabeth who is behind the camera.
The film ends from a balcony looking down onto traffic moving along the Rue de Rivoli beside the Tuileries Gardens in Paris. In the distance the Eiffel Tower can be seen.
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