This film follows a group of boys and girls on a week-long camping trip to Langdale, North Yorkshire. The film contains footage of the camp set up, the preparation of their meals and the hiking trips on which the children went. This film was used in The Way We Were in 2004. Title-The County Secondary School Silsden Yorkshire July 1953. Title-End of term. The party leaves for the first annual camp beside Loughrigg tarn in Langdale. The film begins with shots of lots of boys and girls coming...

This film follows a group of boys and girls on a week-long camping trip to Langdale, North Yorkshire. The film contains footage of the camp set up, the preparation of their meals and the hiking trips on which the children went. This film was used in The Way We Were in 2004. Title-The County Secondary School Silsden Yorkshire July 1953. Title-End of term. The party leaves for the first annual camp beside Loughrigg tarn in Langdale. The film begins with shots of lots of boys and girls coming out of a school carrying bags, sacks of food or bedding, they smile at the camera as they pass by. A coach is parked outside the school gates and the children pack the back of the coach with their bags. The bus drives away leaving some other children to wave the bus off. Title-Beyond out tents is England's highest mountain Scafell Pike and nearer still the Langdale Piles challenge the climbers. From the top of a hill the camera pans around to give a panoramic view of the mountains and countryside. Title-We learn to live in tents and to be in time for breakfast. Two metal pans are sitting over a make shift oven, a woman ladles food from one pan to another. Then there are shots of some of the girls folding bed sheets outside, and then this cuts to one girl brushing another girl's hair. The boys and girls come running from the tents to the breakfast tent where they sit at a long wooden tent and eat platefuls of food and drink tea. Following this are shots of three girls washing the dishes in a big tub full of water and then there is a shot taken from inside a tent looking out at some boys about to enter with the mountains visible in the background. Title-Duty parties always work hard. A woman holds a spoon up to one of the boys and he tries to lick it, then she offers it to another boy who makes a face. A girl sits on a rock and reads a letter. Title-Daily expeditions mean many packed lunches. Several women stand at a table in the open air, they are cutting loaves of bread, tomatoes and buttering the bread. One of the men twists the packed lunches closed. Title-For the `B' party walkers. A man stands behind a table handing a line of children a sandwich bag and a piece of fruit. Title-And the `A' party climbers are off to the Langdale Pikes. A line of boys walk past another man who also hands them their lunches. There is a shot from one side of a fence filming the older boys as they follow their leader out of a field and off on their walk. Some of them smile as they pass the camera. Title-Let's climb Harrison Stickle by way of Dungeon Gill. The boys stand at the base of the mountain and consult a map, one of them points in the direction of the mountain and the camera pans to take it all in. They walk down a country path and through a fence; they wave as they go through it. There are more shots of the mountains in the distance and then of the boys as they climb along a track beside a waterfall. They make their way higher, along fields and across streams and rocky areas. Title-On top with all the world at his feet. One of the boys sits on the grass at the top and looks through a pair of binoculars. Title-We descends by Silver Howe with views of the Helvellyn range. There are shots of the group as the walk back down along rocky tracks with the countryside visible in the background. Their leader consults a map and then they are off on their way again. Title-The last halt before camp. They boys and their leader are seated on rocks and drink from glass bottles. Title-Sunday-We attend church at Chapel Stile, eat our Sunday dinner and receive our visitors. Some of the girls sit outside in the grass polishing shoes. Then there is a shot of the entire group filing up a village road and into a church. Following this is a shot of them all walking along the country road after church. A table has been set up in their field and a woman is dishing out dinner with the help of two of the boys. A coach drives up the lane and the children wave; their parents have come to visit them and there are shots of them having dinner at the long table. There are shots of the visitors chatting to each other and some of them play cricket with the children. Title-We find and watch-many creatures on our rambles and even discover an artist at work. There are shots of a sheep staring at the camera, some ponies in a field and some saplings which some of the children point out to their leader. Down by a lake some of the children stand on a jetty beside some row boats and feed the swans. There are shots of the lake and the surrounding views. From a boat the camera takes shots of the lake and also of some seagulls that are flying along beside the boat. A group of the children stand in a copse of trees and watch artist paint a scene on a canvas and easel. There is a brief shot of some of the boys catching a big worm. Title-Setting out for Fairfield 3000'. Group of the children set off on a walk with their backpacks. Title-We strike camp. Some of the children help the leaders to dismantle the camp and pass the pieces across a wall to a waiting truck. Title-We share memories of a week in which we climbed together among the mountains and lived beside the still waters. Some of the girls are standing in a pond washing their faces. Then there are shots of some of the boys going into the water for a swim. There is a panning shot from one side of the pond looking across at the camp. Title-The End.