Metadata
WORK ID: NEFA 23014 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
UK (6), DEC 1959 - MAY 1960 | 1959-1960 |
Details
Original Format: Standard 8 Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 33 mins 30 secs Credits: John Scott Forsyth Genre: Home Movie Subject: Travel Sport Family Life |
Summary A home move produced by John Scott Forsyth that features his wife Joanna and three children Rosemary, Angus and Richard. They are filmed at home in Sedgefield where they also attend both the Sedgefield Ball Game as well as a local steeplechase horse race, possibly The Durham National which is heled there. They also travel visiting a number of friends or family as well as Edinburgh and Middlesbrough where the Transporter Bridge briefly appears. |
Description
A home move produced by John Scott Forsyth that features his wife Joanna and three children Rosemary, Angus and Richard. They are filmed at home in Sedgefield where they also attend both the Sedgefield Ball Game as well as a local steeplechase horse race, possibly The Durham National which is heled there. They also travel visiting a number of friends or family as well as Edinburgh and Middlesbrough where the Transporter Bridge briefly appears.
Outside the front of the family home in...
A home move produced by John Scott Forsyth that features his wife Joanna and three children Rosemary, Angus and Richard. They are filmed at home in Sedgefield where they also attend both the Sedgefield Ball Game as well as a local steeplechase horse race, possibly The Durham National which is heled there. They also travel visiting a number of friends or family as well as Edinburgh and Middlesbrough where the Transporter Bridge briefly appears.
Outside the front of the family home in Sedgefield, Joanna and Angus Forsyth head inside followed by a woman carrying a broom. In the back garden a man, a teenager and two small boy carry piece of wood and empty boxes to create a bonfire which is lit. Everyone gathers round to look at it.
Joanna and Richard watch as a cat walks past them in back garden. The film changes to Richard now in a duffle coat coming out of the house and filling his child sized wheelbarrow with earth and dumbing it at a different part of the garden.
In the driveway of a different house a woman holds a small boy while speaking with someone sitting in a car. Beside her an older girl and boy. The film returns to the family home in winter with Joanna take a sled from the garden shed and she and Richard walk to the top of a nearby hill to go sledding and to have a snowball fight.
The family visit Edinburgh Castle and watch soldiers fire the One o’Clock gun. It is still winter, and Joanna is wearing a think fur coat as she Angus and Richard walk about the castle.
On Shrove Tuesday the family and other locals walk to the centre of Sedgefield to watch the annual Sedgefield Ball Game. The game gets underway and the mob of those taking part rushes around trying to find the ball. The crowd of onlookers follows the match as it passes through the town.
Possibly at York Joanna crosses a busy road to meet two friends. She chases after Richard who has run ff into a nearby park. She returns to her friends and together they blow bubbles with Richard. In the background the entrance to the Royal Station Hotel.
In a garden two boys, including Richard, play on a set of swings. Joanna and an older woman help push the boys and hold one of them as he swings upside down.
At Sedgefield Racecourse Joanna and another woman place a bet with a local tic-tac man. A young man in a kilt comes out of the house and plays a set of bagpipes in the garden. On a hillside a crowd has gathered to watch a steeplechase event. Marquees have been erected around a make-shift showground where the horses are paraded. The crowds make their way down the hillside as the horse race past.
In the family garden two young men clean and then push a roller across the lawn. The stop for a rest, one smoking a cigarette.
Three women come out of a large house followed by them and several others picking something from bushes growing on the ground. A young woman holds a bouquet of daffodils, in a wicker basket several more bouquets. A group wonders through a wooded area passing blossoming bushes and trees. A boy stands beside a fence looking at a Hereford cow and her calf in the field. The group seen previous makes its way into the field to look at the cattle, before turning and leaving again. On a lawn area beside a large house a man uses a rake on the grass.
The young man seen previously plays his bagpipes now stands with them in the driveway of a large houses surrounded by other. The scene quickly changes to three men walking through an orchard. The family park the car on a country road and go for a walk up a moorland hillside accompanied by a dog who comes over carrying a dead bird in its mouth. The group sit on a rocky outcrop to rest, an older man lights a pipe. Beside a river the older man watches a boy fishing, they look at stone along the edge of the water.
An older woman sits in a chair in a living room quickly changes to a younger woman standing beside a car in a country lane.
Two women walk along a road in a town, one of them looks at a collection of postcards for sale. Back in Sedgefield two women, one looking through binoculars up at St Edmunds Church.
In Middlesbrough a small crowd wait for the arrival of the gondola for the Transport Bridge changes to an older couple walking through a garden with a small child. Joanna stands in the driveway of a large house, nearby a man work in a garden. At a different smaller more modern property Joanna speaks with a couple in their front garden. An older woman sits in a garden followed by her and a group of others walking through a large garden.
Inside a house children sit at a table as a man pour drinks for them, a woman comes in joins them at the table.
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