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DetailsOriginal Format: Standard 8 Colour: Colour Sound: Sound Duration: 4 mins 54 secs Credits: Arthur Foreman Genre: Home Movie
Subject: Family Life Religion
Summary A home movie produced by Arthur Foreman begins with his eight-month-old daughter Michelle playing in the family garden with her older sister Trisha and brother David. His father, also Arthur Foreman, poses in his St John’s Ambulance uniform alongside his wife and the remainder of the film features people preparing to start of the annual Corpus Christi procession along Sussex Street in Middlesbrough.
Description
A home movie produced by Arthur Foreman begins with his eight-month-old daughter Michelle playing in the family garden with her older sister Trisha and brother David. His father, also Arthur Foreman, poses in his St John’s Ambulance uniform alongside his wife and the remainder of the film features people preparing to start of the annual Corpus Christi procession along Sussex Street in Middlesbrough.
A baby girl sits on a rug in a garden playing with her toys, she is joined by her older...
A home movie produced by Arthur Foreman begins with his eight-month-old daughter Michelle playing in the family garden with her older sister Trisha and brother David. His father, also Arthur Foreman, poses in his St John’s Ambulance uniform alongside his wife and the remainder of the film features people preparing to start of the annual Corpus Christi procession along Sussex Street in Middlesbrough.
A baby girl sits on a rug in a garden playing with her toys, she is joined by her older sister and brother. They all play happily together. The child is given a tricycle, which she begins to bite.
The two older siblings come out of a terraced house making their way towards a VW Beetle car parked in the road. While the boy sits in the passenger seat, the girl poses by the car door.
In a garden two women pose together, one putting on a pair of gloves. They are joined by Arthur Foreman, the filmmaker’s father, wearing his St John’s Ambulance uniform. One of the women leaves and is replaced by a second man, all three pose for the camera.
On Sussex Street in Middlesbrough a crowd has gather along the pavement while a man carrying a clipboard walks past looking at the camera. With the tower of the Old Town Hall in the background an older man wearing a flat cap poses with two boys with people walking past in the background. Two older boys pose for the camera followed by a priest walking through the crowds carrying a briefcase.
A troop of Boy Scouts, some of whom play up for the camera, along with several alter boys and other boys wearing school blazers stand in front of a large shop window. An older couple posing for the camera followed by the man seen previous with the clipboard now giving instruction to a group of older alter boys one of whom is carrying a large crucifix. A man and young woman walk along the road past several parked buses.
Standing in a line beside a large Embassy Cigarette billboard a group of young girls in white dresses with red sashes and and wearing veils, beside them three older women watching over them. The film ends on one of the altar boys seen previously handing a candlestick to another boy.