One in a large collection of family films portraying the Cooper family of Leeds. This particular film comprises of images of family orientation during the years 1936 and 1948. The Cooper family are filmed here at the wedding of Ron and Dora and are also shown at their family home (Rondor) in Leeds. Title - "A Rondor Production" Title - "Wednesday December 16th 1936" Title - "We invite you to a wedding" Title - "Dora marries Miles." [Ron] Three...

One in a large collection of family films portraying the Cooper family of Leeds. This particular film comprises of images of family orientation during the years 1936 and 1948. The Cooper family are filmed here at the wedding of Ron and Dora and are also shown at their family home (Rondor) in Leeds. Title - "A Rondor Production" Title - "Wednesday December 16th 1936" Title - "We invite you to a wedding" Title - "Dora marries Miles." [Ron] Three women dressed in overcoats and hats walk up a path, outside the church. Three men, dressed in smart suits and hats follow. The rest of the wedding party file past the camera. Dora (bride) dressed in a white wedding gown, with a long veil and head piece carries a bouquet of flowers and walks up the path, arm-in-arm with Ron (groom). They walk past the camera and are followed by two bridesmaids. Dora and Ron get into a car - close-up through the car window. Ron stands outside the reception hall talking to a group of men. Ron and Dora pose outside the hall. Nan and Pa Thomas, (Dora's mum and dad) stand in front of a car. Dora's veil blows in the wind as she poses for the camera, and two bridesmaids also pose for the camera, wearing white mufflers. Someone throws confetti over Ron and Dora and the two bridesmaids. Ron and Dora pose for the camera. Title - "Air Salute" A solitary aircraft - possibly a spitfire - flys past. Shots of the family. Title - "Young Geoff Aged 15" Ron's younger brother Geoff stands laughing. A female photographer takes group pictures outside the hall. Inside the hall it is very dark. Guests sit at the tables and there is a tiered wedding cake. Title - "Twelve years later Meet Angela" Jill (or 'Angela' - Ron's daughter) walks across the front of their family home - Rondor, Leeds - carrying a doll. She puts the doll on a tricycle, then waves at the camera. Dora appears at the window. Title - "Dora with Mother and Dad" The group walk down the front steps and pose for the camera in the front garden of Rondor. Ron joins them, as does Jill - pushing her doll's pram. Title - "Wot! No Mickey" Mick, (son) comes running from behind them to join his sister. They all wave at the camera. Nanny and Pa Thomas, (Dora's mum and dad) pose in the front garden of Rondor and start to walk towards the camera. Title - "Nanny and Pa with the children" All four walk through the garden, towards the camera. Title - "Danger Men at Work" Mick pushes his little wheelbarrow and Pa pushes a bigger wheelbarrow around the back garden of Rondor. Mick follows his grandad. Jill sits in Pa's wheelbarrow and Susan Wolfe, (daughter of Maurice and Sylvia Wolfe - who was the director of Rose Morris Musical Instrument Suppliers in London. They were business and personal friends of the Coopers), walks alongside him. Pa follows Mick this time. Both Susan and Jill sit in the wheelbarrow and Mick keeps stopping in front. Title - "Bib up Dill!" Everyone waves at the camera. Dora, Ma Thomas, Jill and Susan walk around the back garden. Title - "Easter 1948" Title - "Norah - Charles - and Angela Visit us from Lincoln" Norah, Charles,(Green - lived in Billinghay and befriended Ron while he was in the RAF at Coningsby, during the war) and Pa Thomas stand talking. Susan Wolfe, Jill, Ma Thomas and Dora join them. Pa and Jill start to dance. Charles Green, Dora, Mick, Susan Wolfe, Jill, Ma Thomas, Norah Green and Pa Thomas walk past the camera. Mick, Susan, Jill and Angela Green play in the sandpit in the back garden. Norah Green helps Angela Green while Ma and Pa Thomas watch on. Jill rides a tricycle on the front lawn. Title - "Jill Susan Mickie" Mick rides a small pedal kart and Susan and Jill ride tricycles. They push them along the back wall then ride them all the way back round, crashing into one another as they do. They all then ride past the camera, a chicken coop in the background, then ride past some sheds - Jill pushes Mick in his wheelbarrow. They try to perform handstands and somersaults on the front lawn, then sit on the front doorsteps and wave at the camera. Jill, Mick and Angela Green play with a ball in the front garden. Mick comes down the driveway in his pedal kart whilst Angela and Jill watch. Angela then rides down the drive in the kart whilst Jill and Mick walk at the side of her. Title - "Francis and Geoff" Francis and Geoff stand in front of the downstairs windows of Nan and Pa Cooper's (Ron's parents) house. Geoff is the Ron's younger brother and Francis is his girlfriend. Mick joins them and they pick him up. Title - "Janice and Les" Janice and Les (Ron's brother) stand in front of the window and Les picks Mick up. Janice and Les are husband and wife. Ron and Dora stand with Mick and Jill, stand together and are joined by Janice and Francis. Janice and Francis lift Jill up and down. Les is in the background and Mick runs down the drive. Nan and Pa Cooper come out of the front door of their house with their dog, Buster. Title - "1948 Nanny and Pa Cooper Mickey and Buster" Nanny feed Buster while he begs. Pa, Nanny and Mick walk past the front of the house and join the rest of the group. Janice, Les, Geoff, Francis. Dora is stands in the doorway and Mick tries to lead Buster to her. Title - "Pum on Buster" However, the dog refuses to go. The rest of the family stand watching and at the end of the line of family is Jill - waving at the camera. Jill, Francis, Mick, Dora, Janice, Nan Cooper, (and Buster) and Pa Cooper all appear to climb out of the back of a Triumph Razor car. Title - "Fares Please" Jill, Geoff, Les, Mick, Dora, Francis, Janice, Nan Cooper and Buster, Pa Cooper, Jill, (again!) Geoff, (again!) Mick, (again!) and Dora, (again!) all climb out the back of the car. Mick climb through the car on his own The whole family pose in front of the car. Susan Wolfe, Mick and Jill wave at the camera inside their family home Title - "The End" Title - "A Rondor Production."