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[The Soldier’s Courtship?] or [Tommy Atkins in the Park?]
Date | [1896 - 1898?] | ID | 8447 |
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A couple get revenge on an old woman when she disturbs their privacy in this comedy by Robert Paul.
Come Along, Do!
Date | [1898?] | ID | 8444 |
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A couple decide to visit the "art section" on a day out in this sketch by Robert Paul.
Grandma’s Reading Glass
Date | 1900 | ID | 8372 |
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A boy examines the objects around him with a large magnifying glass as he sits with his grandma in this 1900 film by George Albert Smith.
The Soldier Returns
Date | 1902 | ID | 8387 |
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A soldier retrieves his mother from the poor house when he returns from the Boer War in this positive depiction of postwar experience by James Williamson.
The Old Chorister
Date | 1904 | ID | 8392 |
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Superimposition conveys an old man's reminisces and apparitions after hearing choral singing in this James Williamson production.
[Family in Garden]
Date | [ca. 1920s?] | ID | 8149 |
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A short compilation showing a family group with a wheelbarrow in a domestic garden, playing together with the grass cuttings. Several older family members and a Labrador dog join in the game.
Tansy
Date | 1921 | ID | 8929 |
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The story of Tansy, a shepherd's granddaughter, who is adored and mistreated by the men in her life, told over nearly an hour of footage and intertitles. Scenes are shot on location, setting action in the rolling hills of the Devon countryside, as well as interior sets. Intertitle styles make visual distinctions between spoken phrases by the characters, shown in bold white type over black, and the writer's voice, which is conveyed by elaborate script over the same still image. Several interjections are made by Hepworth himself, remarking on the narrative as it unfolds.

[Warnham Court: Family with Baby]
Date | 1924 | ID | 4905 |
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A family group hold a baby whilst posing for the camera on a garden bench. Colonel Brander holds a dog as the baby's mother 'Biddy' holds the baby with her husband 'Joe'. In portrait a grandmother or a nanny [?] stand at the main door with a domestic nurse as both turn and enter the house. These scenes also feature at the end of Joe and Biddy Lucas's wedding film on TID 4902.
[Summer in Bognor Regis: Couple in Garden]
Date | 1928-1930 | ID | 8173 |
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A compilation that opens with a title: “1928: Let us introduce Aunty Ethel and Uncle George" showing an older couple sat on a bench in a domestic garden, the couple stand talking followed by a series individual portraits, and the couple admiring the flower beds.

Bathing Beauties
Date | 1929 | ID | 3211 |
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An edited home movie showing playful scenes of the Staley family at the beach in their home town of Bognor Regis and in their garden in the late 1920s. The film includes some camera effects using slow and reverse motion.

Summer 1929
Date | 1929 | ID | 3218 |
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A film of the Staley Family enjoying the Summer in the garden and at the beach in their home town of Bognor Regis. Ralph and Nellie, are seen playing with their daughter Pam at the local public gardens, at the beach and at home with the family.
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[Family at Home and on Trips]
Date | [ca. 1930s] | ID | 580 |
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A Surrey family together in the garden at home on Frimley Road, Camberley, and on outings to the river and an airfield, on a picnic and a trip to the seaside and open air swimming pool, in the 1930s.
[Visit to the Park; Family Scenes]
Date | [ca. 1930] | ID | 1274 |
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Family scenes filmed in the 1930s in London and Surrey. Much of the footage is filmed in a park with deer, seemingly unfazed by the family's presence. Interior, picnic and domestic garden scenes are also included.
[Baby Scenes]
Date | [ca. 1930s] | ID | 4505 |
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In brief scenes filmed by Mr. Glaseby, a woman holding a baby hands the child to his grandmother, who sits in a deck chair in the family garden in Pulborough, West Sussex.
[Kitten Etc.]
Date | [ca. 1930s] | ID | 4608 |
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In Markwick family scenes, a tabby kitten washes its white paws and tail. It is seen sitting on a chair and walking in the garden. A family member, the grandmother of the family, is seen in an apron, holding out a dish of milk for the cat.
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