Metadata
WORK ID: NEFA 23040 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
21ST JUNE 1969 - 26TH DEC 1969 | 1969 | 1969-12-01 |
Details
Original Format: Standard 8 Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 33 mins 30 secs Credits: John Scott Forsyth Genre: Home Movie Subject: Industry Family Life Environment/Nature Celebrations/Ceremonies |
Summary A home move produced by John Scott Forsyth featuring wife Joanna and youngest son Richard at home in Sedgefeild with friends and family including daughter Rosemary and son-in-law Nicholas.Perkins. Joanna joins a group visiting the Farne Island during breeding season to see the various birds nesting there. Joanna and Richard also take part in the annual Durham Miner’s Gala where they get to see the like of Barbara Castle, Michael Foot and Prime Minister Wilson make speeches. |
Description
A home move produced by John Scott Forsyth featuring wife Joanna and youngest son Richard at home in Sedgefeild with friends and family including daughter Rosemary and son-in-law Nicholas.Perkins. Joanna joins a group visiting the Farne Island during breeding season to see the various birds nesting there. Joanna and Richard also take part in the annual Durham Miner’s Gala where they get to see the like of Barbara Castle, Michael Foot and Prime Minister Wilson make speeches.
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A home move produced by John Scott Forsyth featuring wife Joanna and youngest son Richard at home in Sedgefeild with friends and family including daughter Rosemary and son-in-law Nicholas.Perkins. Joanna joins a group visiting the Farne Island during breeding season to see the various birds nesting there. Joanna and Richard also take part in the annual Durham Miner’s Gala where they get to see the like of Barbara Castle, Michael Foot and Prime Minister Wilson make speeches.
Along the quayside a Seahouses a crowd gathers, some sit on benches or the seawall while other stand around chatting. Amount the crowd Joanna Forsyth. A queue forms down a set of stone steps as passengers climb onboard one of three fishing boats moored there. Those at the front must climb from was vessel to the other to make space for those behind them.
As the boats head out to sea, they pass seals resting on a rocky outcrop, others bob up and down in the water watching the boats. Those on-board look out at large rocky outcrops on which many seabirds are nesting.
Seabirds dive around the visitors as the passengers make their way onto the island from the landing site. They wonder around the island, a Tern nests in the grass while other flies over the cameraperson’s head. Sitting along clifftop people uses binoculars to watch the nesting seabirds in the outcrops around them. Another bird nests on the ground in foliage changes to a nest with five eggs in it. Tern’s swoop and fly overhead and the visitors climb back aboard one of the fishing boats. It departs.
Joanna and son Richard work a camping stove beside a VW Campervan parked on a country road. They make a meal, nearby a man sits on a rocky outcrop. General views of the unusually shaped rock formations nearby.
Inside a large marquee a crowd including Joanna and Richard stand around chatting over drinks. Joanna and Richard leave the marquee changes to a large banner with a lot of writing on it, possibly a poem.
In the garden of the family home in Sedgefield a family group sits on deckchairs drinking and chatting. Joanna, daughter Rosemary and her husband Nicholas and a third woman walk around the garden and across the lawn. Outside the front of the family home, they kiss as Rosemary and Nicholas leave.
Joanna walks towards the VW campervan parked beside a large house.
Outside the County Hotel in Durham a crowd watches as miners parade past behind banners making their way toward the racecourse. Joanna and Richard join the crowds as they wonder through the city. On the racecourse the wind is blowing the banners which have been placed in a line, crowds walk past two ice-cream vans.
From a raised speakers platform Barbara Castle makes a speech to the watching crowd. Brass instruments resting on the ground changes to Michael Foot now making a speech followed by Prime Minister Harold Wilson. General views of the various banners, including those for Seaham, South Hetton, Marley Hill and Vane Tempest lodges. Around them people sit on the ground chatting including musicians that includes one drummer rests against his instrument.
Back in the family garden Joanna sits beside a man and a young woman, they drink wine and chat.
Joanna and Richard accompanied by an older couple look over a Tudor style house, they admire the flowers growing in the garden. Joanna is given a bow and arrow which she fires.
Joanna, Richard and a family group sit in the back garden of the family home, Joanna is given a brightly wrapped present. Several children sit around, two of them play a game of backgammon. In a large field children race about while Joanna watches over a barbeque on which food is being cooked. They all come over to eat.
Joanna and three other people walk through an overgrown garden changing to them walking around the harbour of a small fishing village. Inside a room Joanna and the others look over various architectural drawing pinned to the walls and models laid out on a table.
Richard and another boy attempt to dam a stream passing under a stone bridge with rocks. They toss stones down a nearby small waterfall.
It is winter and Joanna and Richard walk along a snowy country road. They cross over a small footbridge and sit on two stone plinths on the other side. They throw food down for duck and geese swimming on the stream below. Under a concrete bridge they throw stones into a river.
On a school rugby field, a game is underway between two teams of young boys. There are a number of throw-ins.
In the back garden of the family home Joanna and Richard stand in the frame of an unfinished greenhouse. A man comes into the garden with a rifle, he shoots it followed by Richard. Inside the extended family open presents, possibly at Christmas. A toddler sits on the knee of its mother as she opens a present.
Outside a woman holder the toddler in her arms, around them Joanna and Richard. A crowd walk around them.
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