A home movie produced by John Scott Forsyth that features his wife Joanna and son Richard. In the first part of the film Joanna attends a wedding with the happy couple holding their reception inside a large marquee. This is followed by a visit by John to Moscow in what was then the Soviet Union to help man a display for ICI. As well as the exhibition itself, the film also features footage from around the city including a family living in one of the cities many apartment blocks. Back in the...

A home movie produced by John Scott Forsyth that features his wife Joanna and son Richard. In the first part of the film Joanna attends a wedding with the happy couple holding their reception inside a large marquee. This is followed by a visit by John to Moscow in what was then the Soviet Union to help man a display for ICI. As well as the exhibition itself, the film also features footage from around the city including a family living in one of the cities many apartment blocks. Back in the United Kingdom John joins friends to do some shooting in the fields around ICI Wilton Works on Teesside. The final part of the film features a holiday with Joanna to the Chambolle-Musigny region of France and its capital Dijon to visit friends who own a vineyard there. From an upstairs window a small crowd gathers around a bride dressed in white and groom in army dress uniform standing together in a street. In a garden beside a marquee three well-dressed women stand chatting. Inside the marquee the bride and groom pose for the camera, outside again guests mingle over drinks while the bride and groom chat with family and friends. They all pose together for the camera, the women holding bouquets. Back inside the marquee the happy couple and their guests’ take their places at the top table. Guests chat over their food followed by the bride and groom come out and cut their wedding cake. Several speeches and toasts follow. Joanna Forsyth, daughter Rosemary and her husband Nicholas greet another young couple on the steps of a town house, possibly a Registry Office. Rosemary kisses the cheeks of the couple. Outside a Moscow railway station, a man reverses and parks a car into a space. From a window overlooking Red Square traffic moves along a road past the Kremlin. Inside an exhibition hall men and women walk past various displays, outside large crowds walk along a pavement past a building with a display out the front of the letter ‘C.C.C.P’. Back inside the exhibition hall a car is on display and people walking past reading text for pictures on the wall. Traffic moving along a boulevard surrounded by modern concrete apartment buildings changes to a park surrounded by older historic buildings. The exterior of the Main building of Moscow State University followed by views across the city and Moskva river from an upper floor. A phantom car ride past a decorative orthodox church changes to people swimming in an open-air pool. A young woman smiles and waves at the camera, Muscovites fill the pavement as they walk past. A children’s playground surrounded by apartment blocks. A bus drives past as a couple with small child comes out of a block carrying suitcases and gets on to the bus. Four people walk towards a tall modern concrete office block. A crowd walks past looking at a series of displays taking place inside. A group stand beside a metal mural of Lenin attached to a wall in the building entranceway. Security staff check over a woman as she makes her way into a reserved area, behind her a crowd of men waiting to be searched. She must empty he purse onto the floor. Various bags go through a metal detector machine or equivalent. In a lane beside fields several vehicles are parked, a group of men stand nearby carrying shotguns. In the background the cooling towers of ICI Wilton Works. The group walk across a field and along another track. On a pitch a group of boys play rugby changes to an assault course around which Joanna and Richard walk, Richard attempting some of the course In an orchard Joanna and another woman pick apples from a tree changes to Joanna walking across a runway to board a British United Airways airplane. She walks past a colourful flowerbed changing to vines in a vineyard. In an office a woman opens a bottle of wine, sitting outside Joanna drinks a glass sitting on the ground beside some vines. Joanna walks through a town, three French flags fly from above a doorway. From a road a village in the near distance changes to a road sign for ‘Chambolle-Musigny’. Views across the local farmland and a farmer on a tractor driving between rows vines. Beside a wall Joanna enjoys a picnic of French bread and cheese. John Forsyth takes a seat beside a Citroen 2 CV and enjoys a glass of wine. General views of vines and surrounding countryside. Joanna and three mem walk past a large house changes to two of the men looking over vines the growing in a nearby field. A family gathers around a table for a meal changes to a shop or stall where a line of people is purchasing something that comes to them in small boxes. In the town of Dijon Joanna and a group walk along a street into a shop of café. A parade is taking place with young women seated in the back of small buggies which drives through the town. Others are driven in the back of open top vintage cars. Inside a large building a seated crowd listen to a line of men seated along a table on a stage. Outside locals walk past followed by a procession of costumed musicians marching behind a banner. Joanna walks through a field of vines changes to two men standing chatting. On Dijon railway station Joanna stands beside her luggage surrounded by other waiting passengers. She stands chatting with another woman. The film ends with a brief boys rugby match taking place on a pitch.