Metadata
WORK ID: NEFA 22751 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
MIDDLESBROUGH GANG SHOW 1951 | 1951 | 1951-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: Standard 8 Colour: Black & White Sound: Silent Duration: 13 mins 49 secs Credits: Maurice Brunton Genre: Amateur Subject: Entertainment/Leisure Arts/Culture |
Summary An amateur film produced by Maurice Brunton of the 1951 Middlesbrough Scout Gang Show taking place in St John’s Hall in the town and featuring Scouts of all ages in both female as well as male costumes performing a revue or variety show of song, dance, and comedy. |
Description
An amateur film produced by Maurice Brunton of the 1951 Middlesbrough Scout Gang Show taking place in St John’s Hall in the town and featuring Scouts of all ages in both female as well as male costumes performing a revue or variety show of song, dance, and comedy.
Title: Tyrolean Festival
The film begins in the second part of the performance with boys dressed in traditional lederhosen for the male parts and dirndl dresses for the female roles performing a series of traditional Alpine folk...
An amateur film produced by Maurice Brunton of the 1951 Middlesbrough Scout Gang Show taking place in St John’s Hall in the town and featuring Scouts of all ages in both female as well as male costumes performing a revue or variety show of song, dance, and comedy.
Title: Tyrolean Festival
The film begins in the second part of the performance with boys dressed in traditional lederhosen for the male parts and dirndl dresses for the female roles performing a series of traditional Alpine folk dances. Their performance ends and the curtain closes.
Title: Babies! Only Babies!
The next performance features boys dressed as babies dancing and playing in front of the dress curtain and another boy dressed as a nurse or nanny attempting to control them.
Title: Angus MacDonald!
In front of the dress curtain a compere attempts to speak to the audience, a Scottish marching band comes onto the stage disturbing him. They then proceed to perform on stage for the audience. A comedy sketch follows featuring a small boy and a woman.
Title: Spring As Seen By...
Title: Business Men
A number of boys wearing a shirt, tie, and jacket along with shorts perform a musical number in front of the dress curtain.
Title: Footballers
A number of older boys in tutu dresses perform a song and dance routine on the stage.
Title: Wolf Cubs
A Scout Master wearing his uniform and a tutu sings a song for a group of cub scouts sitting around him. They get up and, all dressed in a tutu, begin to jump around.
Title: Policemen
Still in tutu dresses a number of boys also dressed in police jackets and helmets perform on stage another song and dance routine in front of a painted backdrop. All the boys seen previously wearing tutu dresses also come onto the stage to perform. Their performance ends and the curtains close.
Title: Song & Parade
In front of the dress curtain a group of Cub Scouts in uniform sing to the audience. The curtains open and they step back revealing all the performers sitting together on tiered steps. Using their hands they all perform a synchronised song and dance routine. An older boy comes onto the stage to perform a solo.
They continue to perform until the curtain closes. It is raised again and the boys on the stage wave at the audience as the film ends.
Title: The end
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