Metadata
WORK ID: NEFA 23041 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
1ST JAN 1970 - SEPT 1970 | 1970 | 1970-09-01 |
Details
Original Format: Standard 8 Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 33 mins 30 secs Credits: John Scott Forsyth Genre: Home Movie Subject: Travel Sport Family Life Education Celebrations/Ceremonies |
Summary A home move produced by John Scott Forsyth featuring wife Joanna and youngest son Richard as well as daughter Rosemary and son-in-law Nicholas Perkins. The first part of the film features the Sedgefield Hunt preparing to leave, possibly on New Year Day. This is followed by Scotland playing France in the Five Nations Rugby Championship taking place at Murrayfield in Edinburgh on the 10th January 1970. The film also features a visit to Barnard Castle by Rosemary and Joanna and Richard visiting Rugby School where Richard is a pupil. Other events featured include a wedding, a visit to Norgas House at Killingworth and a brief sequence of what is believed to be Moscow filmed while as part of a delegation from ICI. |
Description
A home move produced by John Scott Forsyth featuring wife Joanna and youngest son Richard as well as daughter Rosemary and son-in-law Nicholas Perkins. The first part of the film features the Sedgefield Hunt preparing to leave, possibly on New Year Day. This is followed by Scotland playing France in the Five Nations Rugby Championship taking place at Murrayfield in Edinburgh on the 10th January 1970. The film also features a visit to Barnard Castle by Rosemary and Joanna and Richard visiting...
A home move produced by John Scott Forsyth featuring wife Joanna and youngest son Richard as well as daughter Rosemary and son-in-law Nicholas Perkins. The first part of the film features the Sedgefield Hunt preparing to leave, possibly on New Year Day. This is followed by Scotland playing France in the Five Nations Rugby Championship taking place at Murrayfield in Edinburgh on the 10th January 1970. The film also features a visit to Barnard Castle by Rosemary and Joanna and Richard visiting Rugby School where Richard is a pupil. Other events featured include a wedding, a visit to Norgas House at Killingworth and a brief sequence of what is believed to be Moscow filmed while as part of a delegation from ICI.
In the centre of Sedgefield, a small local crowd watches as huntsmen on horseback prepare to ride of at the start of a hunt.
A crowd carrying a large banner in French walks carefully past along an icy road. Those at the back make their way past parked cars toward a stadium, believed Murrayfield in Edinburgh. Richard Forsyth stands beside older sister Rosemary and her husband Nicholas, they look though a programme. Inside the stadium several men walk across the pitch, some carrying the banner other waving French flags. They leave the pitch, and rugby march between Scotland and France gets underway. General views of the match following by the crowd mobbing the French team as they leave the pitch.
Outside the family home in Sedgefield, Richard takes a cardboard tube from the back of a VW Campervan parked there using it as a telescope. He carries books from the house to the van where his mother Joanna is stepping out. They kiss and hug.
Rosemary and a young couple walk around the ruins of the castle at Barnard Castle. They then walk away from the nearby Bowes Museum.,
A toddler and its mother play in a doorway.
Joanna and a man walk through an unknown village, Joanna walks past a Tudor style house along a lane leading to a church with spire in the near distance. The man now walks with a young woman along a busy street. Joanna and another women look in the window of ‘Turpin Antiques’, they are joined by the man and younger woman.
At Rugby School in Warwickshire Joanna and Richard come out of the Quad Building walking away along a path, behind them other students. Beside a road Richard stands beside another boy holding an air-rifle.
Joanna and an older couple walk along a woodland path, the other woman holding a bouquet. They stand chatting before the other woman walks to a Citroen 2 CV parked along a track.
Three men walk across a bumpy field, past a house to a spot beside a river where they Joanna helps them plant a tree. Several other people join in either watching or helping.
Inside a marquee a bride and groom greet and thank a line of wedding guests as they walk past them. Guests chat over drinks, some standing others seated at tables. Several guests play up for the camera. Outside a Jaguar car is made ready for the happy couple who come out of a building and have confetti thrown on them as they make their way to the car.
A man walks with two small boys, one of them points at the camera. Joanna picks you one of the boys rubbing his legs.
Back at Rugby School Joanna, Richard and another woman make their way inside the Quad Buidlings.. They look around a classroom made up of wooden benches. They wonder around other building and fields passing a sign that reads ‘Rugby School Hillbrow, Private’. Boys playing tennis in a field changes to Richard standing beside a piano in an auditorium while Joanna sits in chair nearby. Inside another classroom a display of pupils artwork.
In the garden of a house a family group sit relaxing, a teenage sits on a chair before relaxing on the grass. A young couple come out of a terraced house. At Killingworth in Northumberland Joanna and the young couple walk around Norgas House.
At an outdoor pool boys, including Richard, take part in a series of swimming races.
Outside a church a crowd gathers, inside a large crowd watching a service. Outside again adults and boys walk away.
In the garden of the family home at Sedgefield Joanna speaks with another woman, behind them children play on the lawn. Other members of the family sit around an outdoor table chatting and eating.
On a lake or river Richard sits in an inflatable dinghy paddling. He plays around on the water.
A phantom car ride through a city believed to be Moscow passing building and high-rise apartments. Pedestrians walk along a busy pavement. From a window a park below.
Two women walk through the garden of a large house, Joanna and another older couple sit at an outdoor table chatting over drinks. Richard jumps and dives into a swimming pool, he and a man appear to work on the diving board with a small axe. Joanna comes over and looks at the pool.
Beside a country road looking down into a valley a family sits beside the VW Campervan enjoying a picnic. Joanna watches over a smoking barbeque, a girl stirs the content of a pot cooking on a small stove. Joanna dishes up the food for everyone. Following the meal two boys throw a frisbee, a topless man sits beside the van. Other children sit nearby, inside the van a young girl.
In the backyard of a house Joanna sits on a chair as son-in-law Nicholas opens a bottle of wine. Daughter Rosemary along with Nicholas cook burgers on a barbeque. The family, including Richard sit around an outdoor table eating.
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