Metadata
WORK ID: NEFA 23008 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
USA (11) JUNE 14 1958 | 1958 | 1958-06-14 |
Details
Original Format: Standard 8 Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 20 mins 50 secs Credits: John Scott Forsyth Genre: Home Movie Subject: Travel Transport Family Life Entertainment/Leisure |
Summary A home movie produced by John Scott Forsyth that featuring his wife Joanna, daughter Rosemary and sons Angus and toddler Richard on holiday to a country house possibly at Chocoroua Lake in New Hampshire. The film shows them with friends relaxing, swimming and generally having a good time. The film also features an aircraft taking off filmed from inside and traffic possibly moving along Lake Shore Drive in Chicago. |
Description
A home movie produced by John Scott Forsyth that featuring his wife Joanna, daughter Rosemary and sons Angus and toddler Richard on holiday to a country house possibly at Chocoroua Lake in New Hampshire. The film shows them with friends relaxing, swimming and generally having a good time. The film also features an aircraft taking off filmed from inside and traffic possibly moving along Lake Shore Drive in Chicago.
A country house surrounded by trees, a woman walks into the garden from the...
A home movie produced by John Scott Forsyth that featuring his wife Joanna, daughter Rosemary and sons Angus and toddler Richard on holiday to a country house possibly at Chocoroua Lake in New Hampshire. The film shows them with friends relaxing, swimming and generally having a good time. The film also features an aircraft taking off filmed from inside and traffic possibly moving along Lake Shore Drive in Chicago.
A country house surrounded by trees, a woman walks into the garden from the house down to the waters edge of a lake. Nearby a man and boy mow the lawn. A boy runs over.
At the rear of the house four women and girls stand chatting with a fifth older woman. She goes inside as the four others walk away. A family stands beside a car parked on a street of a small town. Two women and a child walk around.
Two young men walk onto a pontoon moored on the edge of the lake near to the house, an elevated lifeguard chair is constructed on it. They go swimming in the lake.
The two women seen previously walk along a path beside the house and one of them plays with a small boy in the long grass while the other relaxes on the ground nearby.
A man loads suitcases into the boot of car around which a family stands. The car drives away.
Another man in a chequered shirt releases a snake onto the lawn, it slithers away watched by the two women. A family group relax or play games on the lawn. A man carries a smiling young woman on his shoulders, two young men play catch. A woman takes a small boy around the garden while the man in the chequered shirt sits on the nearby lawn with two boys, he holds a camera.
A buffet meal has been set up on a table, a larger group dive in and fill plates with food. Everyone sits around drinking and chatting happily. The group goes for a walk around the garden.
From the roof of a terminal building an airplane taxis along the runway at an airport, another aircraft takes off as other planes stand at various gates. A helicopter comes into land. From inside the cabin the propellors on the plane turn in readiness for take-off. It speeds along the runway into the air.
From an upper apartment window traffic moves along a freeway below past high-rise buildings on one side and a sandy-beach and water on the other, possibly Lake Shore Drive in Chicago.
A boy stands beside a railway line as a train passes, a station is in the near distance. He picks up a coin from the track and shows it to a woman.
Two women and small boy sit on the edge of a sandy beach beside a lake. The film changes to the younger of the two women walking across a sunny meadow, the other woman sits on the grass relaxing. The two play with a small boy on the veranda of a house, another older boy sits nearby. One of the women takes the child for a walk in the garden.
The older woman swims in the lake changing to show her on the veranda holding a toy over the crib where the small boy is resting. She squeezes the toy over the crib, it blows bubbles.
A beaver or other wild animal stands on the drive of the house, a pair of hands tries to stoke it. The animal runs away. A young man and women swim in the lake and dive into the water from the pontoon. The film ends on a man in a flat cap and cigarette but hanging from his lip speaking with someone off camera.
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