A home movie made by Edwin Davison that primarily focuses on a family holiday to Scotland featuring a phantom car ride across the Forth Road Bridge and a visit to Edinburgh Zoo. The film also features a Sunday School parade through Wallsend that features his daughter Karen as well as the launching of the tanker Sir Winston Churchill on the 31st May, 1965 from the yard of Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd at Wallsend where Edwin worked as a Manager in the Costing Department. Several...

A home movie made by Edwin Davison that primarily focuses on a family holiday to Scotland featuring a phantom car ride across the Forth Road Bridge and a visit to Edinburgh Zoo. The film also features a Sunday School parade through Wallsend that features his daughter Karen as well as the launching of the tanker Sir Winston Churchill on the 31st May, 1965 from the yard of Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd at Wallsend where Edwin worked as a Manager in the Costing Department. Several marching bands, including one from the Salvation Army, marches through Wallsend followed by groups of children accompanied by adults. One of the groups marches behind a banner which reads ‘Hadrian Road Methodist Sunday School’. Along the route of the march spectators watch from the pavement. From the cliffs at Tynemouth various tankers, cargo ships and other vessels travel in and out of the river Tyne. From the Wallsend yard of Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd the tanker the Sir Winston Churchill is a launched. In a field beside a loch Highland cattle grazing. The far shore or an island on the loch changes to a Mute swan and other birds along the shoreline near to some moored boats. A brief phantom car ride along a country road changes to the filmmaker’s daughter Karen playing in the sand on a larger loch. The family car is parked on the verge of the road, surrounding it conifer woodland and traffic moving past towards a loch and hills in the distance. Another brief phantom car ride and the shore of another loch, the water so still that the surrounding hills and mountains are reflected in it. The filmmaker wife Evelyne sits on the edge of another loch followed by views of the water and surrounding countryside with Evelyne and Karen both resting against a large rock. The two of them follow a path up a hillside and look out at the surrounding landscape from the windy top. Edwin, with a handkerchief on his head, rests beside the family car with Karen enjoying a picnic. Evelyne lays of a blanket relaxing. Father and daughter look into the water of a nearby stream, small fish swimming about in it. More grazing Highland cattle changes to a phantom car ride across the Forth Road Bridge and Karen standing near a name plate relating to the construction of the bridge. At Edinburgh Zoo various caged animals and birds including a pelican, a parrot, a brown bear in its enclosure, flamingos and a tiger walking the perimeter of its cage. Several seals perform for the crowd jumping into and playing about in the water. In other enclosures giraffes, camels, and an elephant whose trunk sticks out from behind bars. A keep feeds Emperor penguins, a goat with large horses and a polar bear resting on a rock. The film ends on the name written above an archway ‘Scottish Zoological Park’.