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DetailsOriginal Format: 16mm Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 7 mins 40 secs Credits: Ken Ellwood Genre: Home Movie
Subject: Sport Family Life Education
Summary A home movie produced by Ken Ellwood of three football matches featuring two of his sons playing. In the first match from 1975 David Ellwood plays in the Embsay Sunday League team who are taking on a ‘friendly’ Police Eleven at the Calton Road Football grounds near Skipton in North Yorkshire. In the second part of the film two matches featuring Peter Ellwood on the Water Street Primary School team playing first against Catterall Hall Juniors in the grounds of Giggleswick School and then Broughton Street Primary School in a field by Engine Shed Lane in Sandylands, both matches took place in September 1972. The film ends on David Ellwood swinging a golf club which is filmed in slow-motion.
Description
A home movie produced by Ken Ellwood of three football matches featuring two of his sons playing. In the first match from 1975 David Ellwood plays in the Embsay Sunday League team who are taking on a ‘friendly’ Police Eleven at the Calton Road Football grounds near Skipton in North Yorkshire. In the second part of the film two matches featuring Peter Ellwood on the Water Street Primary School team playing first against Catterall Hall Juniors in the grounds of Giggleswick School and then...
A home movie produced by Ken Ellwood of three football matches featuring two of his sons playing. In the first match from 1975 David Ellwood plays in the Embsay Sunday League team who are taking on a ‘friendly’ Police Eleven at the Calton Road Football grounds near Skipton in North Yorkshire. In the second part of the film two matches featuring Peter Ellwood on the Water Street Primary School team playing first against Catterall Hall Juniors in the grounds of Giggleswick School and then Broughton Street Primary School in a field by Engine Shed Lane in Sandylands, both matches took place in September 1972. The film ends on David Ellwood swinging a golf club which is filmed in slow-motion.
The Embsay Sunday League football match kick-off with both teams make attacks at the goal including David Ellwood. Eventually Embasy Football League scores after which the match continues. Several young men sit on a fence watching the match, other spectators watch from the touchline.
A group of schoolboys make their way along a track changing to the Giggleswick School playing field and a game of football between the Water Street Primary School and Catterall Hall Juniors. The game gets underway, and each side make a number of attempts at goal. The game is paused to the referee can take a puppy of the field. The match continues.
In a field a second match is underway between Water Street Primary School and Broughton Street Primary School. Again, attempts by both teams at scoring a goal and spectators watching from a distance.
In front of a large hedge David Ellwood takes a swing on a golf club, the sequence is filmed in slow motion.