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[Visit to the Park; Family Scenes]

Date[ca. 1930]ID1274

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.

[Along the Rauma Railway in Norway]

Date[ca. 1931]ID746

An amateur film-maker records his travels through Norway on the Rauma Railway. Sights captured on camera include a wildfowl hunt with gun-dogs, interior shots of the Oppdal Hotel and Trondheim Cathedral, as well as footage of the journey itself as the train passes through villages, towns and countryside.

[Brighton Beach and Activities] (1930s)

[Brighton Beach and Activities]

Date[ca. 1930s]ID6214

This edited black and white film provides highlights of a variety of different leisure time activities and events undertaken by the Hilson family.

A still from [Beach Scenes] (1930s)

[Beach Scenes]

Date[ca. 1930s]ID6219

Lewis Rosenberg's film shows a group of adults and around a dozen young girls at a campsite in Cornwall. The film captures relaxed moments at the camp; surfers bodyboarding; and rural farming scenes.

A wide black and white still image taken from TID 12266, showing a group of boys from the Feagan's home standing on a platform waiting for a narrow gauge Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch railway locomotive with carriages, to pull into the station platform.

[Odd Pieces; Jim Bryant]

Date1930sID12266

An amateur film of Fegans Children's Home trips to Cornwall, Hythe and Croydon featuring miniature railways and period airliners.

[Family Barclay Film I; Fair; Wedding; Pool; Holiday]

Date1932ID3346

A compilation of family scenes filmed on holidays, outings, picnics and trips to London, Sussex and Essex in 1932.

A still from [Scouting Voyage on the SS Calgaric] (1933)

[Scouting Voyage on the SS Calgaric]

Date12 -29 August 1933ID9332

This film shows a voyage by Lord and Lady Baden-Powell visiting troops and companies of Scouts and Guides as they cruise the Baltic on the SS Calgaric for an ‘Argosy of Peace’. The film includes scenic views of the nations visited, with welcome parades and greetings by dignitaries, national costumes and uniforms, speeches, processions, dances, games and meals.

Wales

Date[1934?]ID3219

Film of the Staley family on holiday in Snowdonia, Wales. Ralph Staley films workings on a sheep farm and his family on the seafront, where ten year old Pam practices driving on the beach. They walk up mount Snowdon and take picnics in the countryside. A final section, in Dufaycolor, shows the family at Lake Bala [?] taking walks and stopping for tea.

A wide black and white still image taken from TID 12260, showing an external view of the L.M.S. Edge Hill Station Goods warehouse with locomotives and tenders stationary on the track outside. The multi-storey brick building has the words L.M.S. Edge Hill Goods Station sign written in large white letters on the outside.

[Fegans Early Days; Visit to Zoo; Sports; Open Day]

Date[ca. 1936]ID12260

Boys from Fegans Childrens Homes visit the zoo, go camping and travel to Liverpool before assembling back at school for an Open Day.

A black and white still image taken from TID 13496, showing a sign for the Dreamland Railway that reads 'Dreamland Miniature Railway, Park Station' in dark lettering on a white background. The sign is on the middle island platform in front of a light coloured art deco style building.

[John's Sports Day and Summer 1934]

Date1934ID13496

An amateur film recording a young boy's sports day events, followed by a visit to Margate's Dreamland and the narrow gauge Romney Hythe & Dymchurch Railway.

[Holiday Scenes: Wales and Brugge]

Date[ca. late 1930s]ID1096

This amateur film contains images of animals, notably extreme close-ups of caterpillars and their larvae, and of a woman feeding doves. It also has footage of two holidays - the first is a touring holiday of the Welsh countryside, the second a city break to Brugge.

[Visit to India]

Date[1935?]ID3526

On the banks of the Ganges, a funeral pyre is prepared. Street scenes follow, before an Asian couple in Western riding gear pose for the camera. People board a train on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway. The landscape is filmed from a train window, before a busy city street scene. A group of European friends are seen having tea, before footage of boats in a bay, filmed from the deck of a ship.

A still from Where Was George? (1936)

Where Was George?

Date[ca. 1936?]ID5028

This silent black and white fiction film tells the story of a man named George who feels undermined by his wife. Upon receiving money left to him by a relative, he sets about fixing his domestic troubles by visiting a hypnotist. Working with a colleague, he plans to mislead his wife by going on holiday to Brighton without her. George tells his wife he is on a business trip. Unfortunately for George, she foils his plan and tracks him down at a hotel.

Beside the Seaside

Date1935ID8430

Margaret Grierson's film, with commentary written by W.H.Auden, presents a day out for Londoners at their south coast destinations. Leaving London during a heat wave, they make their way to Brighton, Broadstairs, Ovingdean and Eastbourne to swim, dance, chatter and enjoy the Palace Pier's amusements.

[Wrexham; Oxford; Welsh Coast] (ca.1937)

[Wrexham; Oxford; Welsh Coast]

Date[ca. 1937]ID10026

This multi-reel colour film (with some magenta and green cast) shows a family trip through the towns of Wrexham in Wales; the university town of Oxford; and enjoying a seaside family holiday to the Welsh coast.

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