Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 7372 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
N.C.B. REGIONAL FIRE-FIGHTING COMPETITION DONCASTER RACECOURSE 1966 | 1966 | 1966-07-16 |
Details
Original Format: Standard 8 Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 10 mins 25 secs Credits: Harry Wilson. Rhonda Wilson Genre: Amateur Subject: Coal Entertainment/Leisure Family Life |
Summary Produced by husband-and-wife filmmakers Harry and Rhonda Wilson a record of the 15th annual Fire-Fighting Competition taking place at Doncaster Racecourse in South Yorkshire on Saturday 16th July 1966. Several events involving fire hoses are recorded at the end of which prizes are presented to winning participants. The remainder of the film features a fairground carousel, a young woman in a park, four people picking strawberry and the same individuals splashing around in an outdoor swimming pool. |
Description
Produced by husband-and-wife filmmakers Harry and Rhonda Wilson a record of the 15th annual Fire-Fighting Competition taking place at Doncaster Racecourse in South Yorkshire on Saturday 16th July 1966. Several events involving fire hoses are recorded at the end of which prizes are presented to winning participants. The remainder of the film features a fairground carousel, a young woman in a park, four people picking strawberry and the same individuals splashing around in an outdoor swimming...
Produced by husband-and-wife filmmakers Harry and Rhonda Wilson a record of the 15th annual Fire-Fighting Competition taking place at Doncaster Racecourse in South Yorkshire on Saturday 16th July 1966. Several events involving fire hoses are recorded at the end of which prizes are presented to winning participants. The remainder of the film features a fairground carousel, a young woman in a park, four people picking strawberry and the same individuals splashing around in an outdoor swimming pool.
A woman walks a dog past a pair of trees changing to a poster for the 15th annual Fire-Fighting Competition taking place on Saturday 16th July 1966. At Doncaster Racecourse a large banner on the far side of the track that reads ‘‘Yorkshire Division National Coal Board Fire Fighting Competition’.
A group of men congregate near to a small marquee as several fire hoses are set up on the ground beside them. A race gets underway with firemen racing down a track and work together to unfurl the hoses before water shoots out from the nozzle. The event over the reels are rolled up again while a woman and small girl watch from the stands.
Another race this time with two men racing along the track, while one man runs on with the nozzle the other attempts to attach one end of a hose to another. Unfortunately, he isn’t quick enough and the water shoots out of the hose before he has a time to attach it. The hose now attached the water shoots out again from the nozzle being held by the other man.
The young girl stands by a display of flowers changes to men competing in another event he climbs a ladder with a hose that is attached to a wooden frame. He pushes open the top of the frame and begin spraying water. Another hose race this time taking place inside a wooden frame used to simulate mine shaft.
The woman and girl make their way towards a group of well-dressed men and women who stand around chatting. Someone lifts the girl into the air above the crowd. Everyone listens to a man speaking into a microphone after which prizes are presented to several men.
A poodle in a garden changes to a fairground carousel going round and a round. A couple come out of a terrace house and cross a road. A girl in a blue spotted dress walks through a park or garden carrying a bundle of budding tree branches which she holds up for the camera. At a nursery three women and a man go strawberry picking in a field, one of them eats the fruit. A woman sits on the edge of an outdoor swimming pool kicking her legs in the water, another woman in a bikini wades through the water. They are joined by a man who sits atop a fountain in the middle of the pool splashing the women sitting around him. The film ends with everyone getting out of the pool.
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