Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 5028 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
NEWQUAY MAY 1964 | 1964 | 1964-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: Standard 8 Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 33 mins 20 secs Credits: Derrick Walton Subject: ENTERTAINMENT / LEISURE SEASIDE TRAVEL |
Summary This is a film made by Derrick Walton of a family holiday in Newquay, Cornwall. The film includes footage of a model village, Stonehenge, and the seaside town of Newquay. |
Description
This is a film made by Derrick Walton of a family holiday in Newquay, Cornwall. The film includes footage of a model village, Stonehenge, and the seaside town of Newquay.
The film begins showing a holiday brochure for Newquay. Two women emerge from a holiday home holding the hands of a small girl. They are joined by a man and a boy as they walk around the garden admiring the flowers. There is a road sign for Bourton-on-the-water and for Cheltenham. They do a tour of...
This is a film made by Derrick Walton of a family holiday in Newquay, Cornwall. The film includes footage of a model village, Stonehenge, and the seaside town of Newquay.
The film begins showing a holiday brochure for Newquay. Two women emerge from a holiday home holding the hands of a small girl. They are joined by a man and a boy as they walk around the garden admiring the flowers. There is a road sign for Bourton-on-the-water and for Cheltenham. They do a tour of Bourton-on-the-water, filming the river and the village, and visiting the model village. They then visit an aviary with many exotic birds. They move on to Devizes where they feed the swans.
The family goes to visit Stonehenge where they wonder freely around the stones. They go on to Poole, showing the village and the coast as the sun goes down. They stay in a place called ‘The White Cottage’. They visit Milton Abbas and Lyme Regis, spending some time there. One of the children is shown asleep in the back of the car, whilst the other has a drink out of a flask. Then they stay at the ‘Hotel Atlantic’. They go down to the beach and show some of the coast before going on canoes. They drive off again, visiting Tintagel, filming the surrounding area.
On a crowded beach at Newquay, the family members sit in deckchairs and play in the sand with buckets and spades. The two children have ice lollies, while their mother writes some postcards. A woman feeds the many flocking gulls. They rest next to their car parked on the beach. There is a red sunset Next day they are back on the beach making sand castles and swimming in the sea.
At Falmouth, they walk around the harbour and the shops in the town. There is another sunset, shot from inside a cave looking out to sea. Back on the beach and the children play with a model airplane and paddle in the sea. They visit Fowey Head, where they go on a boat trip along the coast. A series of road signs are shown in sequence: The Lizard, ‘Lighthouse and most Southerly Point’. They look down on the waves crashing against the coast. There is a sign for Goonhilly Radio Station, which is shown from various points. They feed some gulls and again play on a beach.
The End
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