This brief film is part of a collection that records a family from York's trips to the coast and countryside around North Yorkshire. The films were all shot by the Lord Mayor of York's son and are a child's view of these days before World War Two. The film opens with an underexposed close-up of a man smoking a cigarette; the rest of the family are visible on the beach in the distance. One of the men smiles and talks to the camera. He then runs off down the beach with a group...

This brief film is part of a collection that records a family from York's trips to the coast and countryside around North Yorkshire. The films were all shot by the Lord Mayor of York's son and are a child's view of these days before World War Two. The film opens with an underexposed close-up of a man smoking a cigarette; the rest of the family are visible on the beach in the distance. One of the men smiles and talks to the camera. He then runs off down the beach with a group of children. The next shot is a close-up of a man's foot which is resting over a bucket as he tries to wash the sand off it. Then there is a shot of him sitting in a deck chair with two women holding a foot each, drying it with a towel. In another scene, a woman wades around in the sea trying to get her bathing cap the right way around. The last few shots start with a close-up of a woman knitting; then the camera pulls back and she smiles at the camera.