Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 4279 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
CHRISTINE FRENCH FAMILY 1 | 1940s | 1940-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: 9.5mm Colour: Black & White Sound: Silent Duration: 12 mins 30 secs Credits: Harry Herring (CF's grandfather) Subject: ENTERTAINMENT / LEISURE FAMILY LIFE SEASIDE |
Summary This is a film of a family at home and on holiday, probably in Scarborough. It includes some clever cinematography. |
Description
This is a film of a family at home and on holiday, probably in Scarborough. It includes some clever cinematography.
An elderly woman is tending her garden and collecting flowers. She is then seen again, this time with a coat on collecting berries in a bag in a meadow. There is a view of a house nestling in a hillside. A man is out also collecting berries in a basket. A boy can be seen through the arches of a stone bridge going over a river. The boy is with the man and woman walking past a...
This is a film of a family at home and on holiday, probably in Scarborough. It includes some clever cinematography.
An elderly woman is tending her garden and collecting flowers. She is then seen again, this time with a coat on collecting berries in a bag in a meadow. There is a view of a house nestling in a hillside. A man is out also collecting berries in a basket. A boy can be seen through the arches of a stone bridge going over a river. The boy is with the man and woman walking past a dry stone wall and into the garden. The boy walks along a path by some water. The film moves to a rowing boat coming to shore where people are sat watching. An extended walkway is wheeled out to the boat. A pier can be seen in the background.
The film switches to show a steam engine pulling a pleasure passenger train with open carriages and one closed carriage with, written on the side, 'Pleasure Beach Express' - probably at Scarborough. There is a fun fair with a mechanical laughing clown. There is a fairground ride and a boy in a rowing boat on a lake. The elderly couple then get into a peddle driven boat. A small boy and girl are playing on some grass and another boy is helped to ride a bicycle by his mother. The small boy and girl play Ring a Ring o' Roses and the Hokey Cokey with an elderly jolly woman, with the washing on the line behind them. They are joined by their mother. The elderly woman cuts her hedge.
The film switches again to winter with two women having a snowball fight watched by a small boy. They swing the boy up and down, and one of the women holds up another small child. A man arrives at the house and picks up the child. The jolly woman creeps up on the child and surprises her. The boy holds a teddy bear and then the small child. Two women, possibly mother and daughter, pose for the camera. The film does a reversal in time trick with the boy jumping up onto a chair backwards. The jolly woman picks up the boy, and then has a kiss with a man, probably her husband. The boy plays in the garden and another elderly woman arrives. The jolly woman comes in with a dog and carries the boy on her shoulders. The boy then plays with his mother in the garden and is then picked up by a man.
The man walks down the street with the boy and the jolly woman, and then they lark about in the garden. A woman and a small girl walk down a street. Some children are out on a street and then the family come down some steps in a park. One of the children goes for a pee. They continue to walk and play in the park. There is a mechanical doll, which, in a clever bit of film, has a fight with a teddy bear. The children and adults continue walking around the park and the film comes to an end.
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