A promotional film for the Youth Hostels Association (YHA) that features narration by English television and radio personality Noel Edmonds. The film visits many YHA Hostels throughout England and Wales providing details on the facilities they have as well as information of attractions to visit in the surrounding area. Title: The producers wish to thank the wardens and members of the YHA for their help in the making of this film Speed-up footage of commuters getting off trains at a London...

A promotional film for the Youth Hostels Association (YHA) that features narration by English television and radio personality Noel Edmonds. The film visits many YHA Hostels throughout England and Wales providing details on the facilities they have as well as information of attractions to visit in the surrounding area. Title: The producers wish to thank the wardens and members of the YHA for their help in the making of this film Speed-up footage of commuters getting off trains at a London railway station and heading to work changes to a man carrying a backpack walking leisurely through the countryside past a tree shedding its leaves in autumn. Title: YHA present A Sorel Film He arrives at YHA Ivinghoe in Buckinghamshire with the original name for the property, The Old Brewery House, above the door. Above that the green triangle of the YHA organisation. Inside he passes over his YHA membership card to the warden behind a counter who stamps it for him. Title: Passport to adventure. Narrated by Noel Edmonds A montage featuring various YHA hostels across both England and Wales including YHA Tintagel in Cornwall ends with a man wearing a duffle coat arriving at a hostel. He pulls the handle on a doorbell with the film changing to a phantom walk through a passageway that leads to the hostel beyond. The film changes to YHA St Briavels Castle in Gloucestershire and two young women heading inside. At Abbotsford Hall in Devon a woman and her two children arrive head inside and looking around the room they've enter. A large table sits in the middle of the room around which once sat Winston Churchill and General Dwight D. Eisenhower planning the D-Day invasion. The film changes to three young women talking with an older man in the same room about the history of the hall. A school party departs YHA St Briavels Castle while two people on bicycles arrive getting off their bikes as another hosteller on a motorbike also departs. At YHA Bath a large group departs changing to a cyclist arriving at Bath Abbey. A large group wonders around the nearby Roman Baths and in the pump room some taste the waters. As part of a YHA Adventure Holiday a group go scuba diving in the sea changing to a sailing dinghy on a trailer being pushed out into a lake. On the water many dinghy’s each being gently sailed across the still water. At YFA Idwal Cottage hostel near Bangor in North Wales an instructor gives a lesson on rock climbing to a group of young people. At a rockface the pupils put their skills to the test with one of them abseiling down. The YHA hostel at Pen-y-Pass in Snowdonia changes to passengers onboard the Snowdonia Mountain Railway watching two hikers walking along a nearby path or track. A young man carrying a rucksack departs YHA Lynton in North Devon changes to the nearby the Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway descending to the beach and the passengers onboard getting off. A young couple walk around the outside of Cheptow Castle in Monmouthshire, inside more visitors looking around the attraction. On a river below a castle a man in a canoe is followed by a canoeing safety class being given by a female instructor At YHA Eskdale in Cumbria the resident donkey stands on the lawn outside changing to the nearby Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway where a woman eating an ice lolly stands watching as an engineer makes ready a miniature steam train for its next journey. The train departs travelling the eleven miles through Lakeland countryside. At YHA Ninebanks near Hexham in Northumberland the camera walks along the path leading to the main road. At Killhope in County Durham the remains of the Park Level lead mine, now the Killhope Lead Mining Museum, with its large waterwheel and the Killhope Burn running nearby through the Teesdale countryside. A young man smiles happily as he cycles along a country road through the Lake District, a phantom car ride featuring the surrounding rural landscape. Back in Northumberland two men with backpacks walk along Hadrian’s Wall changes to a montage of people hiking through various rural locations in England and Wales, some crossing bridges while one man walking past a windmill. Outside one YHA hostel beside a river a group of young people enjoy a picnic and play with a rugby ball. At the reception desk inside a hostel three young women are checked in changes to a group of young men coming into a hostel drying room where boots are stacked up on a shelf. In one hostel kitchen a warden preparing a meal for his guests while in another a man cooks his own meal on a stove. At a hostel shop two men buy a couple of cans of peas changes to a large dining room where everyone sits around long tables to eat their meals and chat with each other. In the kitchen following dinner some of the guests help out with the washing up while in the common room a man playing a guitar leads the room in song. In the female dormitory women sit or lay in their bunkbeds chatting. In the male dormitory one man brushes his teeth while those around him chat as they get ready for bed. The next morning two men finish packing their rucksacks before leaving. A comedic sequence follows featuring the man seen at the start of the film who is filmed speeded-up as he rushes to get up, pack, wash and make and eat a fried breakfast before the hostel closes for the day at 10am. A group of pony trekkers leisurely ride through a moorland setting returns to the speeded-up footage of the late-hosteller finally departing, collecting his bicycle and cycling off along a country road passing through several villages. The film returns the pony trekkers as they slowly navigate along an old byway or track. A montage of people leisurely walking, cycling or horse riding through rural settings some arriving at various YHA hostels. The sequence features an artist painting the mountainous scenery in front of him. Outside the Ambleside Youth Hostel a group of six young people sit along the shoreline of lake Windermere watching as a passenger cruise ship sails past. At another hostel beside the seaside a group of young women rush across the road onto the beach and begin splashing in the surf and throwing stones in the sea. At another hostel with special facilities for families a father plays dominos with his children in the common room, sitting on the coach nearby two women chatting with one of them knitting. Three young women walk over to a cliff edge looking out to sea changing to a middle-aged man walking through heather. A man carrying a backpack walks through a field and another man arrives at a YHA hostel. The film ends inside another hostel common room where an older woman at a piano leads a group of hostellers in singing the ‘Battle Hymn of the Republic’. Credit: Camera Alistair Cameron Sound John Forster Editor Brian Nicholls Director John Burden End title: Youth Hostels Association (England and Wales) St Albans Herts.