Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 3102 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
NEWQUAY IN WALES & THE CORACLE MEN | 1961 | 1961-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: 16mm Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 5 mins Credits: Cyril and Betty Ramsden Subject: Travel Seaside |
Summary This film, made by Betty and Cyril Ramsden, documents one of their holidays in Wales. The couple were semi-professional filmmakers filming both for pleasure and taking on commissions from companies such as the Yorkshire Evening Post. |
Description
This film, made by Betty and Cyril Ramsden, documents one of their holidays in Wales. The couple were semi-professional filmmakers filming both for pleasure and taking on commissions from companies such as the Yorkshire Evening Post.
Title-Newquay in Wales
The film opens with a shot of the pier in the sunshine and then moves onto the busy beach. There is a small boat on the beach in the mud of the low tide, and some people have gathered around the boat.
A man walks down the pier with his...
This film, made by Betty and Cyril Ramsden, documents one of their holidays in Wales. The couple were semi-professional filmmakers filming both for pleasure and taking on commissions from companies such as the Yorkshire Evening Post.
Title-Newquay in Wales
The film opens with a shot of the pier in the sunshine and then moves onto the busy beach. There is a small boat on the beach in the mud of the low tide, and some people have gathered around the boat.
A man walks down the pier with his hands full, and there are sunbathers on the beach. A man rubs tanning oil onto his skin.
Next a father helps his toddler to paddle in the sea and that is followed by a shot of the sea taken from the beach. There are small boats in the water, and some children dig in the sand on the water's edge. Some women in one and two-piece bathing suits wander near some of the small boats that are in the shallow water near the sea.
Adults and children are paddling, and there is a man rowing a boat with some women in it and a small girl with a tiny, white poodle puppy. She kisses it and shows it to other children; they kiss it too.
The final shot shows a small boy walking towards the sea wearing a pair of flippers.
Title-The End.
Title-Coracle Men
The film opens with two older men in tweed jackets and caps walking down a road. They are carrying coracles on their heads. They walk to the edge of a fast-flowing river and put them into the water. One of the men takes out a net and starts to untangle it, and the next shot shows the two men in their coracles. The other man holds the two coracles together as the first man coils up a rope. They then float off down the river with some people watching from the other side.
There is a brief shot of the two men on the shore with their upturned boats.
In the next scene, two more coracle men launch their boats onto the river and float away in them. They can be seen walking back up a road with their coracles on their heads.
The film closes showing a road sign that says Newcastle A484.
Title-The End.
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