Metadata
WORK ID: NEFA 23047 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
EM'S WEDDING, 30TH JUNE 1974 | 1974 | 1974-06-30 |
Details
Original Format: Standard 8 Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 8 mins 20 secs Credits: John Scott Forsyth Genre: Home Movie Subject: Fashions Celebrations/Ceremonies |
Summary A home movie produced by John Scott Forsyth of a non-traditional wedding taking place in the grounds of a large houses. Guests including the filmmaker wife Joanna as well as children Rosemary and Richard sit or stand around chatting as an alternative musical group performs. The happy couple stand together cutting the wedding cake |
Description
A home movie produced by John Scott Forsyth of a non-traditional wedding taking place in the grounds of a large houses. Guests including the filmmaker wife Joanna as well as children Rosemary and Richard sit or stand around chatting as an alternative musical group performs. The happy couple stand together cutting the wedding cake
Joanna Forsyth wearing a white dress stands in a street with daughter Rosemary along with her young daughter wearing a long dress. Rosemary helps the girl put on a...
A home movie produced by John Scott Forsyth of a non-traditional wedding taking place in the grounds of a large houses. Guests including the filmmaker wife Joanna as well as children Rosemary and Richard sit or stand around chatting as an alternative musical group performs. The happy couple stand together cutting the wedding cake
Joanna Forsyth wearing a white dress stands in a street with daughter Rosemary along with her young daughter wearing a long dress. Rosemary helps the girl put on a straw-hat. They are joined by two men one of whom is Rosemary’s husband Nicholas. A toddler plays with his toy on the pavement.
Outside a large house they stand chatting. A woman in a green dress begins kissing everyone. Joanna speaks with a bearded young man. In a garden Richard Forsyth sits beside his mother who is speaking with another woman.
Tables and chairs have been set up on a garden, Rosemary stands speaking with two younger woman. Some of the tables begin to fill with guest, some sitting are eating while other chat over drinks. More guests stand around the garden chatting with friends or family, other sit on the grass to eat their food.
Rosemary eats a trifle, her daughter watches eagerly as Nicholas comes over holding the hand of the toddler seen previously. Guests listen on as an alternative musical group performs on the grass, one musician is playing dholki drum.
A bearded long haired young man speaks to the crowd sitting or standing around him, a woman in a long 70’s style dress stands beside him. Together they cut their wedding cake changing to the man now performing on an electronic piano. Sitting on the ground nearby is another man plays a woodwind instrument. Children sit listening on cushions.
A man in a waistcoat and carrying a tray of drinks offers them to a small group seated on the ground beside a marquee. A young couple poses for the camera beside a second young woman. A man in a suit makes a speech. Two men crouching and running like monkeys chases two small children around the lawn. An older couple sit on deck chairs speaking with a young man.
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