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DetailsOriginal Format: Standard 8 Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 3 mins 40 secs
Subject: ARTS / CULTURE ENTERTAINMENT / LEISURE
Summary This is a film by an amateur filmmaker from Selby featuring his family visit to a Victorian fair in Wheldrake.
Description This is a film by an amateur filmmaker from Selby featuring his family visit to a Victorian fair in Wheldrake.
The film begins with people dressed in historic costumes who are selling tickets at the gate of the Fair. A woman and a girl pose in a doorway. A man is weaving a basket on a hot sunny day. There are other demonstrations of old crafts, with people dressed up in historic costumes. This is followed by sword dancing, a steam fair organ, a man dressed as a bear selling balloons and more Morris dancing.
