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DetailsOriginal Format: Standard 8 Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 8 mins 20 secs Credits: Harry Wilson. Rhonda Wilson Genre: Amateur
Subject: Agriculture Entertainment/Leisure Rural Life
Summary Produced by husband-and-wife filmmaking team of Harry and Rhonda Wilson, a record of the 1973 Great Yorkshire Show taking place on the showground in Harrogate North Yorkshire. Prized cattle and horses are paraded around show fields while several horses drawn vehicles also feature including a Tetley’s and 19th century stagecoaches. A police motorcycle display team also features entertaining the watching crowds.
Description
Produced by husband-and-wife filmmaking team of Harry and Rhonda Wilson, a record of the 1973 Great Yorkshire Show taking place on the showground in Harrogate North Yorkshire. Prized cattle and horses are paraded around show fields while several horses drawn vehicles also feature including a Tetley’s and 19th century stagecoaches. A police motorcycle display team also features entertaining the watching crowds.
In a garden several decorative flower beds and close ups of various coloured...
Produced by husband-and-wife filmmaking team of Harry and Rhonda Wilson, a record of the 1973 Great Yorkshire Show taking place on the showground in Harrogate North Yorkshire. Prized cattle and horses are paraded around show fields while several horses drawn vehicles also feature including a Tetley’s and 19th century stagecoaches. A police motorcycle display team also features entertaining the watching crowds.
In a garden several decorative flower beds and close ups of various coloured roses and other flowers changes to various types of cattle being brought out into a showground and paraded past crowds standing behind a barrier. A bull wears a rosette.
Another colourful flower changes to a Tetley delivery wagon being pulled by two large shire or draught horses. Several different types of horses are paraded past, at the rear the Tetley wagon being pulled by the dray-horses.
People in 19th century costumes ride atop several horse-drawn stagecoaches that are being ridden around a showground. Following behind several smaller carriages or horse drawn traps.
On another showground a police motorbike display team perform synchronised stunts for the watching crowd including riding through a ring of fire.
The film ends on a woman walking toward camera away from parked cars.