Metadata
WORK ID: NEFA 23016 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
UK (10) 24th MAY 1961 - 26TH AUG 1961 | 1961 | 1961-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: Standard 8 Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 29 mins 10 secs Credits: John Scott Forsyth Genre: Home Movie Subject: Travel Rural Life Family Life |
Summary A home movie produced by John Scott Forsythe that featuring his wife Joanna, daughter Rosemary and sons Angus and Richard. Joanna walks around the village of Blanchland in Northumberland before the family take a trip to the Farne Islands. The remainder of the film features the family with friends or relatives in their own garden in Sedgefield or visiting others. The film features a marching bagpipe band plus an country show where cattle are paraded and sack are tossed over a high bar. |
Description
A home movie produced by John Scott Forsythe that featuring his wife Joanna, daughter Rosemary and sons Angus and Richard. Joanna walks around the village of Blanchland in Northumberland before the family take a trip to the Farne Islands. The remainder of the film features the family with friends or relatives in their own garden in Sedgefield or visiting others. The film features a marching bagpipe band plus an country show where cattle are paraded and sack are tossed over a high bar....
A home movie produced by John Scott Forsythe that featuring his wife Joanna, daughter Rosemary and sons Angus and Richard. Joanna walks around the village of Blanchland in Northumberland before the family take a trip to the Farne Islands. The remainder of the film features the family with friends or relatives in their own garden in Sedgefield or visiting others. The film features a marching bagpipe band plus an country show where cattle are paraded and sack are tossed over a high bar.
Joanna Forsyth walks around the village of Blanchland, she approaches a large white door and goes inside. Four adults walk across a field, Richard Forsyth picks Buttercup.
At Seahouses Joanna and Richard walk down to the harbour and climbs aboard a fishing boat along with the other tourists to travel across to the Farne Islands. The boat leaves the harbour passing several smaller islands where sea birds are resting. More sea birds’ nest in the steep cliffs of s or in colonies on rocky promontories. A group walk across the island before having a picnic in the rocks.
The fishing boat returns and takes them to Inner Farne Island where another bird, possibly an Eider is nesting in the grass. More views if sea birds nesting in the cliffs and Joanna and Rosemary Forsyth walking along the edge. The group continue to explore the island around St Cuthbert’s’ Chapel. Again, the group climb aboard a fishing to return them to the mainland.
In the back garden of the family home at Sedgefield Richard plays watched over by his mother who is building a bonfire. Richard watches the fire burn.
Richard and his sister Rosemary walk along the rocky shoreline of a river. He walks with his mother jumping over a small stream before climbing over a fence.
A group of well-dressed men and women make their way through the garden of a large house.
A man, possibly John Scott Forsyth, comes out of the family home accompanied by Joanna, he holds a camera in his hand. He speaks with a second woman while nearby children play on a wobble board. Two girls come down a slide and a younger girl plays on a swing.
Four women, including Joanna and Rosemary, in the garden of a house. Rosemary puts a flower into her hair. A group sit around a small table enjoying drinks.
A marching bagpipe band performs for a small crowd on a lawned area. A young man in a kilt, possibly Angus Forsyth, accompanies Joanna and a third older woman through a small park.
A paddling pool in a garden and two small boys and a girl playing in it. They play with a man and ball on a large lawn, a woman watches from a reclining chair on a patio area nearby.
On a country road beside a car a fire is lit, and a group stand around it to keep warm.
In a garden a man and boy load a lorry with earth, they lorry departs. A second young man sits having a drink as the other two work around him. At another location the lorry uploads the earth into a hole.
At an agricultural show a large crowd watch as a series of cattle are slowly paraded past them followed by someone tossing a sack of hay over a high bar using a pitchfork.
A family in the garden of a house, a boy crawls on all-fours. Inside a woman speaks with someone off screen, a young boy comes over and places his arms over her shoulders smiling at the camera.
Back in the garden seen earlier another lorry load of earth, the young man speaking with the driver. Again, the lorry drives away.
Out the front of the family home in Sedgefield a car is parked with a small wagon attached at the rear. The film changes to a different location and a man getting into a different car.
Two men in swimming trunks paddle and swim in a lake, the get into a two-manned canoe and paddle away.
A family group watches as children ride a go-kart down the slope of a driveway before pulling it back up to do it again.
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