Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 1694 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
BRADFORD SCHOOLBOYS PART 1 | 1937 | 1937-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: 16mm Colour: Black & White Sound: Silent Duration: 9 mins Subject: EDUCATION TRANSPORT TRAVEL |
Summary This is a film which shows the Bradford School Boys Coronation Holiday to Canada on R.M.S Andania, Cunard White Star, August 1937. It includes a diagram showing the route from Bradford to the Niagara Falls via Liverpool, Glasgow, Belfast, Quebec, Montreal and Toronto. |
Description
This is a film which shows the Bradford School Boys Coronation Holiday to Canada on R.M.S Andania, Cunard White Star, August 1937. It includes a diagram showing the route from Bradford to the Niagara Falls via Liverpool, Glasgow, Belfast, Quebec, Montreal and Toronto.
Title - Bradford Schoolboys coronation holiday to Canada. R.M.S. "Andania". Cunard White star.
Title - Bradford Schoolboys trip to Canada, August 1937. Diagram showing the whole journey and how it was accomplished....
This is a film which shows the Bradford School Boys Coronation Holiday to Canada on R.M.S Andania, Cunard White Star, August 1937. It includes a diagram showing the route from Bradford to the Niagara Falls via Liverpool, Glasgow, Belfast, Quebec, Montreal and Toronto.
Title - Bradford Schoolboys coronation holiday to Canada. R.M.S. "Andania". Cunard White star.
Title - Bradford Schoolboys trip to Canada, August 1937. Diagram showing the whole journey and how it was accomplished. Note: The route is as follows: Bradford - Liverpool - Glasgow - Belfast - Quebec (on the R.M.S. Andania) - Montreal (Via train) - Toronto (Via train) - Niagara Falls.
A brief shot shows a platform in Manchester Victoria station from a train. A life belt reads 'Andania, Liverpool' written on it.
Title | Farewell to the Mayoral Party.
The Mayor and various other dignitaries wave from dock.
Title | Pass times afloat.
Boys run about on deck with a group of people standing around watching them. The Ship's steward talks through a loud speaker. Various deck games are shown including women in an egg and spoon race and men in a tug of war. Boys do an assault course on deck, followed by more scenes of the egg and spoon race - ladies watching and laughing.
Title | Dinner Time.
View of empty deck.
Title | The approach to Quebec.
Views from the R.M.S Andania as it comes in to port at Quebec.
Title | Some scenes in Toronto.
Men in suits look around an oil field, followed by views of buildings and a park. An aerial view captures a Toronto street.
Title | We play havoc in the Fruit Belt.
A sign reads, 'Fruit Fresh Daily'. Shots show the group standing round a market stall with the men and boys eating fruit from punnets and spilling it everywhere.
Title | The well and canal.
Views show canal, large cranes, tug boat and people on quayside in distance. A bridge is then lowered after a tug boat has passes through.
Title | Niagara, the Falls and the Gorge.
Wide shots show a bridge and the Niagara Falls. View from a car across the bridge. There are then views of the rapids and the gorge.
Title: |Not Felo-de-se but nearly fell-in-de-gorge.|
Boys standing on the edge of the gorge. One boy walks past a sign that reads, 'Danger Go beyond this point at your own risk'. Another boy follows and drags the boy back, this is done in jest. More views of rapids and gorge. A cable car comes across the rapids carrying a group of people. View of a sign reads, 'Queenston Canada Steam ship lines ltd'. A group of boys run around, one throws his hat in the air.
Title | The lake of a thousand Islands.
The final shot shows the lakes with little islands from the steamship. View of steam ship called Rapids Prince.
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