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[Marrakech Street Scenes; Heron]
Date | [ca. 1927] | ID | 2969 |
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Footage of Marrakech taken by airline pilot Captain William Armstrong. The film contains images of street markets, locals, and the plains beyond the city walls. There is also footage of nesting heron, and of White-European travellers in the garden of their hotel.
[Marrakech; Flight to Rabat]
Date | [ca. 1927] | ID | 2971 |
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Amateur film-maker, and airline pilot, Captain William Armstrong records a trip to Marrakech. He films images of other White-European travellers taking tea in the garden of their hotel, of the city's walls, and of an elderly local man carving wood. There is also footage of the coastline, the sea and settlements taken during a flight to Rabat.
[Spanish Street Scenes. Religious Procession]
Date | [ca. 1927] | ID | 2972 |
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Amateur film-maker Captain William Armstrong films images of Seville as he travels along its streets in a horse and carriage. There is also brief footage of a religious procession wherein an effigy of Christ on the cross is carried aloft through the urban streets, as well of an open-air market.
[Flight; Seville; Rabat]
Date | [ca. 1927] | ID | 2973 |
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Amateur film-maker and airline pilot Captain William Armstrong records aerial images of farmland, settlements, rivers and mountains during a flight in a biplane.
[Seville]
Date | [ca. 1927] | ID | 2974 |
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An amateur film of a visit to Seville. The film-maker films images of white travellers in a walled garden and in the narrow market streets. There is also footage of the city's shopping streets taken from a moving vehicle.
[Palace Interior; Sierra Nevada; Bullfight]
Date | [ca. 1927] | ID | 2975 |
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An amateur film-maker captures images of the Alhambra Palace courtyard, and of Sierra Nevada from a great distance. The film also contains a sequence showing a bullfight in Grenada.
[Palace Interior]
Date | [ca. 1927] | ID | 2976 |
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Amateur footage which features footage of the ornate interior of the Alhambra Palace in Grenada.
[Rabat]
Date | [ca. 1927] | ID | 2977 |
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Amateur film-maker and airline pilot Captain William Armstrong records images of Rabat. Local street traders occupy the squares and narrow streets of the walled city, and the film-maker visits the manicured gardens of a hotel.

[Aerial Views and Local Scenes of Marrakech]
Date | [ca. 1927] | ID | 2978 |
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Amateur footage of a trip to Marrakech taken by airline pilot Captain William Armstrong.
[Marrakech; Fez]
Date | [ca. 1928] | ID | 2970 |
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An amateur film taken in Marrakech and Fez. The film-maker, an airline pilot, records numerous street scenes and images of the Sultan's Palace, the interior of the Sheriff's House, the Mosque of Medorsa.
[Egypt; Family Scenes]
Date | [ca. 1929] | ID | 2968 |
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A compilation of home movie material taken by airline pilot Captain William Armstrong whilst in Egypt. A group of White-European people are filmed having a picnic where they are entertained by a local magician. A cruise liner and naval ship join the local craft in port. A pan of a city's rooftop is followed by images of the film-maker's young children.
[Boat from Italy; Pyramids; Air Show; Picnic]
Date | [ca. 1929] | ID | 2979 |
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White-European travellers depart from Italy by sea, playing deck games as their journey gets underway. During his trip to Egypt the film-maker climbs one of the Pyramids, filming a panoramic shot from its zenith. Elsewhere, biplanes perform displays in tight formation. The film ends with footage of a multi-generational picnic.
[Family Scenes; Picnic; Baby]
Date | [ca. 1929] | ID | 2980 |
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Home movie footage of family gatherings and outings. Children are filmed paddling in the sea, the film-maker and his family take a ride on a miniature steam train, and go on a picnic, and a set of grandparents hold a young baby in a garden.
[Family Scenes; Play with Dog]
Date | [ca. 1929] | ID | 2981 |
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Home movie material showing a family playing to the camera, with each other, and with a dog in the back garden of their terraced house on three separate occasions. The adults play leapfrog, a young boy plays with the boisterous dog, and one of the women holds out a kettle to the camera as she goes indoors to make tea.
[Wedding]
Date | [ca. 1950] | ID | 2982 |
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Colour amateur of a white wedding. The bride and groom are filmed leaving the church and being showered in confetti as they leave for the reception. The newlyweds pose with their friends and family for photographs in a garden, playing around and laughing. Some of the men start playing leapfrog.
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