Metadata
WORK ID: NEFA 23029 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
19TH SEPT 1965 - 4TH JUNE 1966 | 1965-1966 |
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 Countryside/Landscapes Celebrations/Ceremonies |
Summary A home move produced by John Scott Forsyth featuring wife Joanna and their three children Rosemary, Angus and Richard begins at Christmas with youngest son Richard helping to buy a Christmas Tree for the families Sedgefield home from the market at nearby Stockton-on-Tees. New Year is spent in New York City with the bright lights of Time Square counting down to midnight. Back in the United Kingdom the family visit Bronte Parsonage Museum in Howarth and attend a christening. The final part of the film features a group of walkers hiking around Cauldron Snout in Upper Teesdale on a foggy day. |
Description
A home move produced by John Scott Forsyth featuring wife Joanna and their three children Rosemary, Angus and Richard begins at Christmas with youngest son Richard helping to buy a Christmas Tree for the families Sedgefield home from the market at nearby Stockton-on-Tees. New Year is spent in New York City with the bright lights of Time Square counting down to midnight. Back in the United Kingdom the family visit Bronte Parsonage Museum in Howarth and attend a christening. The final part of...
A home move produced by John Scott Forsyth featuring wife Joanna and their three children Rosemary, Angus and Richard begins at Christmas with youngest son Richard helping to buy a Christmas Tree for the families Sedgefield home from the market at nearby Stockton-on-Tees. New Year is spent in New York City with the bright lights of Time Square counting down to midnight. Back in the United Kingdom the family visit Bronte Parsonage Museum in Howarth and attend a christening. The final part of the film features a group of walkers hiking around Cauldron Snout in Upper Teesdale on a foggy day.
Richard Forsyth beats a drum in the family garden at Sedgefield. An open top sports car is parked in a country lane, sitting in the passenger seat is Joanna Forsyth with Richard standing nearby beside a dry-stone wall. Joanna walks with an older man across a field, they are accompanied by a dog. They look over a garden of vegetables. Joanna and a couple stand beside the sports car now parked beside a building.
Richard and a second small boy walk around market stalls erected near Stockton-on-Tees Town Hall. A third boy in glasses walks through the crowds carrying a Christmas tree. An older boy stands with Richard and the other boy in the doorway of a house holding a Christmas tree. In the living room of the Forsyth’s home a Christmas tree is erected beside the window, the family sit around opening their presents. Daughter Rosemary wears a shawl or hooded top.
In a field surrounded by houses a large metal frame, possibly for a building or similar structure under construction. The three Forsyth children Angus, Rosemary and Richard walk around it. Richard kicks a football around in a field, he passes a rugby ball with his brother Angus. They hug.
Christmas and neon lights in New York City. A large neon sign gives the time as 10.58pm, a rolling sign beneath promotes skating at Rockefeller Centre. A man buys a newspaper from a nearby vendor. Another rolling sign promotes ‘The John Forsyth Show’. Crowds walk past the brightly lit signs for the ‘Metropole Café & Discotheque’ on 7th Avenue and 48th Street. Inside a café or restaurant, a chef sharpens his knife over a flaming grill.
In Time Square large neon signs for the likes of Coca-Cola light up the night as a clock gives the time as 11pm. Another brightly lit sign for the upcoming year; 1966. Inside a deli a man prepares a sandwich or other item while outside crowds walk past theatres and brightly lit signs in Time Square. In the distance the neon sign for the Hotel Astor, a nearby neon sign shows a clothes iron below the word ‘Presto’ with steam coming out of it. The signage about ‘Ripley's Paris Wax Museum’ with several waxworks in the window.
Two different animated neon sign counts down a clock to midnight. Crowds continue to walk past large neon signs, one reading ‘Greetings’. A sign above a deli or bar reads’ Fascination’, inside men sit at a bar while a bus-boy collects glasses and plates.
In a snowy rural scene two older couples stand beside two parked cars. One of the couples pose for the camera beside their house. The Forsyth’s walk around the Bronte Parsonage Museum in Howarth.
A number of people come out of a large, whitewashed house, they walk across a field, In a garden three children shoot arrows from a bow. They stand in a street talking with a man.
A young man outside the families Sedgefield home, a car drives away.
An older man cleans a fish on the banks of a river before weighing it. Nearby Richard plays with a dog. The family go for a country walk accompanied by the dog. Back beside the river the older man shows Richard how to fish.
A family gathers outside a large house, a woman comes out carrying a baby. Two more babies appear being held by a man and a second woman. They get out of a car making their way into a church followed by other guests. Following the service people stand around chatting. Inside a bottle of Champagne is opened with the assistance of Richard. One of the babies is passed around as guests enjoy their drinks. Back outside, people make their way to the vehicles, back inside Joanna plays with the baby.
A sprinting race begins during a boy’s school sports day watched by parents sitting nearby. Richard and Joanna watch the crowds making their way to a marquee.
Joanna makes sandwiches in a field beside a parked car, the family enjoy them beside a fire. Joanna throws crumbs to a duck swimming on the river.
Along a foggy country road people climb of a bus and make ready to go for a walk. The group of around twenty, including Joanna and Richard, head off across open moorland before coming along a path near to Cauldron Snout in Upper Teesdale. The group follows the River Tees downstream stopping to have lunch beside a dry-stone wall. Lunch over, they continue to follow the river to a small waterfall.
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