Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 7331 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
WELCOME TO MAGNUS | 1970 | 1970-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: 16mm Colour: Colour Sound: Sound Duration: 5 mins 40 secs Credits: Ken Leckenby Genre: Home Movie Subject: Family Life |
Summary A home movie produced by Ken Leckenby in which a baby, presumably Magnus of the title, is introduced to his extended family in the garden of the family home. Grand-parents, aunts and uncles pose with the baby alongside his parents before heading off for a walk through the countryside. |
Description
A home movie produced by Ken Leckenby in which a baby, presumably Magnus of the title, is introduced to his extended family in the garden of the family home. Grand-parents, aunts and uncles pose with the baby alongside his parents before heading off for a walk through the countryside.
Title: A Magnetic Sound Stripe Film
Title: KL Films present
Title: Welcome to Magnus
In a garden an older woman holds a baby in her arms changes to a young man with a beard, the father, now holding the...
A home movie produced by Ken Leckenby in which a baby, presumably Magnus of the title, is introduced to his extended family in the garden of the family home. Grand-parents, aunts and uncles pose with the baby alongside his parents before heading off for a walk through the countryside.
Title: A Magnetic Sound Stripe Film
Title: KL Films present
Title: Welcome to Magnus
In a garden an older woman holds a baby in her arms changes to a young man with a beard, the father, now holding the child. A young woman, the mother, now holds the baby as the older woman prepares her camera to take a photograph. An older man appears and holds the baby who begins to cry.
The mother holds the child in the air, now held by his father the older couple stand around with the older man preparing his camera to take a photograph. A second couple appear and look at the baby being held by his father.
In the front garden of the house the family gather with the baby as more photographs are taken. The baby is passed to the other man but begins to cry. The child relaxes in his father’s arms being rocked and soothed, both are wearing flat caps. A camera tripod with one of the flat caps hanging off it.
In a field the father stands beside the boot of a car speaking with someone off camera changes to the baby now being held by a fourth woman. The baby is strapped into a sling being worn by his mother, she, the father, and the other woman go for a walk with a dog. All three stop and pose for the camera again. The walk continues with the father being replaced by the older man seen in the garden earlier, the dog runs around playing with a ball.
The mother sits on a sandy beach with her child while the father plays with the dog. The father unzips his coat revealing his son inside. They continue the walk with the baby looking out from his father jacket at the camera. A woman takes a photograph of the group, and the flat cap is again placed on the baby’s head. The film ends on a family group posing for together with the baby being gently rocking in his father’s arms.
End title: The end. A ‘KL’ Film Production
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