Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 1816 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
BUTTERMERE PART 2 | 1930s | 1930-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: 9.5mm Colour: Black & White Sound: Silent Duration: 16 mins 40 secs Credits: Laurie Wright Subject: COUNTRYSIDE / LANDSCAPES ENTERTAINMENT / LEISURE |
Summary This is one of many travelogue films made by amateur filmmaker Laurie Wright. This is the second part of a film showing sights around Buttermere in Cumberland. It also shows the owner of the Victoria Hotel, the author Nicholas Size. |
Description
This is one of many travelogue films made by amateur filmmaker Laurie Wright. This is the second part of a film showing sights around Buttermere in Cumberland. It also shows the owner of the Victoria Hotel, the author Nicholas Size.
Title - An Argoth Production
Lakeland the walkers paradise
A rambler in a kilt walks away from the camera, and there is a close up of a lake.
Title - Buttermere
The holidaymakers are in front of their hotel before they walk off down a country lane.
Intertitle...
This is one of many travelogue films made by amateur filmmaker Laurie Wright. This is the second part of a film showing sights around Buttermere in Cumberland. It also shows the owner of the Victoria Hotel, the author Nicholas Size.
Title - An Argoth Production
Lakeland the walkers paradise
A rambler in a kilt walks away from the camera, and there is a close up of a lake.
Title - Buttermere
The holidaymakers are in front of their hotel before they walk off down a country lane.
Intertitle - J. N. Size Esq. Proprieter of the Victoria Hotel
A man, John Nicholas Size, poses in front of the Hotel for the camera and shakes hands with his guests.
Intertitle - Once a lover of Lakeland always a lover of Lakeland . . . Almost a centenarian, Mr Size Snr. came regularly to his favourite old haunt
An elderly man with a beard and a walking stick, Henry Size, greets his son outside the hotel, and they both walk towards the camera.
Intertitle - "The Drum Major!"
A woman beats her hat bag with an umbrella. There are geese and ducks. A man walks through the village. A walker climbs up a steep incline. A man sits on some rocks taking his hat on and off. Another walker arrives and walks past the camera, and then playfully scrambles along the ground on his backside towards the camera. More walkers, including a woman, arrive. They sit half way up a mountain.
Intertitle - Scale Force
They walk up to Scale Force.
Intertitle - Easter on the Fells
The holidaymakers are stood outside the hotel looking at a paper. They all set off somewhere, with some wearing waterproof clothing. They stop for something to eat. Without their wet clothing, they walk up the side of a hill, and again stop for refreshment.
Intertitle - Loweswater
There is a panorama of the lake.
Intertitle - Crummock Water
Again, there is a panorama of the lake.
Intertitle - River Cocker and Scale Hill Bridge
There is a river and bridge.
Intertitle - Birkness Gill
There is a brief look at the gill before the film comes to a close.
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