Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 3912 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
CHILDREN PLAYING | 1951-1952 | 1951-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: 16mm Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 15 mins Subject: COUNTRYSIDE / LANDSCAPES ENTERTAINMENT / LEISURE FAMILY LIFE SPORT |
Summary This film shows the family's many leisure activities. The children spend time swimming in the local rivers and rowing in dinghies, playing with the family dogs, playing with stilts and pogo sticks, and tennis games in the garden. |
Description
This film shows the family's many leisure activities. The children spend time swimming in the local rivers and rowing in dinghies, playing with the family dogs, playing with stilts and pogo sticks, and tennis games in the garden.
The film opens with two rubber dinghies which are laid out on the grass as two boys walk through the field with a dog. A girl is in the river with a red rubber ring around her waist. A boy paddles across the river with one ore in the yellow dinghy....
This film shows the family's many leisure activities. The children spend time swimming in the local rivers and rowing in dinghies, playing with the family dogs, playing with stilts and pogo sticks, and tennis games in the garden.
The film opens with two rubber dinghies which are laid out on the grass as two boys walk through the field with a dog. A girl is in the river with a red rubber ring around her waist. A boy paddles across the river with one ore in the yellow dinghy. Reaching the other side, the boy puts the red rubber ring on the riverbank and climbs out. The girl in the red swimming costumes runs away from the dog in the field. The father rows across the river in the dinghy with one ore, and at the side of the riverbank, the boy gets into the dinghy with his father. They each take an ore to row across the river. The two boys sort out their dinghies on the riverbank. They then put the dinghy into the water, and one boy gets in. The other passes him a red rubber ring which he puts around his waist. The father gets into the other dinghy. He rows along the river in one dinghy as the two boys ride alongside him in the other dinghy. Whilst still on the water, one of the boys goes into the other dinghy with his father, and they continue to row along the river.
The mother and the two boys sit on the doorstep where they drink tea and watch the dog eat a bone in the garden. The dog sits with the boys and the mother in front of the house.
On the riverbank, the two boys are preparing their dinghies with their mother and sister. The girl gets into a dingy on the water, the two boys share the other dinghy, and they all row out into the river. On the river, the girl rides in the same dinghy as the boys, and they tow the extra dinghy behind them with ropes.
Three boys get changed behind a tree. The three boys stand on the riverbank and climb into the dinghies in the water. They row into the middle of the river and chase each other, trying to capsize each other's dinghies.
The dog runs around the garden filled with daffodils.
Cows graze in the fields. Brother and sister play tennis on the tennis court. On the driveway, the girl jumps on a pogo stick while the boy walks on stilts. The father walks up the drive on the stilts and jumps on the pogo stick all while smoking a cigarette. The girl, two boys, and father take it in turns to look at the camera and then face to the left for a profile. Two farmers unload a pig from a trailer into a field behind the house. Surrounding the house there are many fields and woodland. A man wearing a flat cap stands with a woman wearing an apron. The film closes with scenes of calves grazing in the apple orchard.
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