Metadata
WORK ID: NEFA 23010 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
UK (2) JULY - SEPT 28TH 1958 | 1958 | 1958-09-01 |
Details
Original Format: Standard 8 Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 33 mins 30 secs Credits: John Scott Forsyth Genre: Home Movie Subject: Travel Family Life |
Summary A home movie produced by John Scott Forsyth that featuring his wife Joanna, daughter Rosemary and sons Angus and Richard as they travel from Southampton to their new home in Sedgefield in County Durham. Along the way they visit Stonehenge as well as family and friends before arriving and begin settling in again with family and friends. The film continues with them exploring the area including a visit to the Lake District to go swimming in a lake and a brief journey onboard a ship believed to be the River Tyne. |
Description
A home movie produced by John Scott Forsyth that featuring his wife Joanna, daughter Rosemary and sons Angus and Richard as they travel from Southampton to their new home in Sedgefield in County Durham. Along the way they visit Stonehenge as well as family and friends before arriving and begin settling in again with family and friends. The film continues with them exploring the area including a visit to the Lake District to go swimming in a lake and a brief journey onboard a ship believed to...
A home movie produced by John Scott Forsyth that featuring his wife Joanna, daughter Rosemary and sons Angus and Richard as they travel from Southampton to their new home in Sedgefield in County Durham. Along the way they visit Stonehenge as well as family and friends before arriving and begin settling in again with family and friends. The film continues with them exploring the area including a visit to the Lake District to go swimming in a lake and a brief journey onboard a ship believed to be the River Tyne.
Visitors walk around the prehistoric monument of Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain, several speak with archaeologists working nearby. The family returns to their car as a school party arrives.
A boy helps a woman climb a steep hillside that overlooks rolling countryside. The woman and boy walk along the edge looking out on the landscape around them before beginning to walk back down the hill.
The family load the car with suitcases outside ‘The Wellington Inn’. The film changes to them rowing a boat on a river along with two additional young women. They work together to upload a picnic from the boat onto a riverbank.
The family walks around the garden belonging to an older couple, in a bedroom the woman helps to feed the young boy. Three people sit around a table in a restaurant changes to two women getting into a Morris Minor estate parked along a seafront. A man watches from a doorway as the car drives away.
In another garden a small boy and girl stand with an older boy, nearby the adults walk through the garden with an older man. The older boys plays on a swing. As the family continues to walk around the garden a shirtless man digs a hole or ditch with a spade.
A family group gather beside her front door of a modern suburban home. Inside two small children jump around in dressing gowns, outside a group of adult’s chat in a garden. They look over a car parked beside a wooden garage. A small boy and girl play together on the veranda of a house. A woman sits with the young boy as two girls appear through French doors both wearing matching blue dresses.
A group walk along a track towards the building site for a partly built house in a rural setting.
The family walk along a stony beach, a man and teenage boy throw stones.
Two men and a woman walk along the driveway of a house, the Morris Miner estate seen previous parked on the street. The small boy plays with a dog on the front lawn. He comes over and holds the hand of an older woman. The family stand on the pavement beside a road.
A ‘Durkin’s of Redcar’ removals lorry is parked outside a row of terraced houses in Sedgefield, workmen unloading the vehicle. The family enter the house. In the back garden a teenager works on the garden while younger children play on the lawn. The children look around several brick out-houses while the adults enjoy drinks on the lawn. A small boy finds a child sized wheelbarrow and pushes it around the garden.
Two families enjoy a picnic beside a river, the children playing near or around the waters edge. They walk back to their cars parked beside a road.
Three children go swimming in a lake watched over by a woman paddling on the shoreline. Several adults join the children swimming in the water. They all splash around along the shoreline before drying themselves off. They go for a walk into the hills surrounding a lake below.
The family stands with others next to a wooden shack built beside their home in Sedgefield. A teenage boy sits in the entrance of the shack drinking from a bottle of milk and eating an apple. Two boys work together to demolish the shack.
A woman holds the small boy and kisses the check of an older one who walks away through a stone gateway towards an ancient stone keep. Cars are parked outside a large building; the older boy is seen on the roof of said edifice.
The woman holds the small child on the deck of a ship as it turns or moves moving along a river, possibly the Tyne. As it turns it past other vessels moored nearby, and buildings built on the opposite shore.
In a kitchen two women do the washing up while two children play on a playset and sandbox in the garden. The film ends on portraits shots of two older women and the children smiling at the camera.
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