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[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.
[A Winter Cruise; SS Avoceta 3500 tons]
| Date | 26 October 1929 - 18 November 1929 | ID | 3214 |
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A detailed film by Ralph Staley of a cruise with his wife Nellie aboard the SS Avoceta; sailing from Liverpool and visiting Portugal, Madeira and the Canary Islands. Mrs Staley is filmed amongst other passengers and crew on deck. They take in the main tourist sights at all the stop off points and film some of the local people and customs they encounter. This film has intertitles throughout.
![A still from [SS Homeric] [1935]](/wp-content/uploads/films/10024/image_a_thumb.jpg "[SS Homeric] [1935]")
[SS Homeric]
| Date | 1935 | ID | 10024 |
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This black and white film documents the family's trip aboard the SS Homeric, stopping off at ports along the route: Gibraltar, Barcelona, Monte Carlo; and Tangier (?). With views of local attractions, hotels and scenery, from a moving vehicle and on foot.
[Reg’s Wedding Scenes]
| Date | [ca. 1944] | ID | 4807 |
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A compilation of home movie material which includes images of two weddings - one a church wedding, the other at a registry office. There is also footage of a holiday to France, cars being loaded and unloaded from aeroplanes, an amateur cricket match, picnics, and the film-maker's children.
[Holidays in Spain]
| Date | September 1947; May 1952 | ID | 1455 |
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Travels across Spain feature in this film, recorded on two separate trips. On the first, Mr Voss drives from Barcelona to Madrid, stopping in Bilbao. On the second, almost five years later, Voss travels from Madrid to Burgos, stopping at Aranda de Duero, Estella and Pamplona. He returns to Madrid via the Guadarrama mountains, and visits Roman monuments at Mérida.
[Holiday to Las Palmas, Canary Islands]
| Date | [ca. 1950s] | ID | 5429 |
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This edited colour and black and white film shows a family holiday aboard a cruise ship on route to Las Palmas in the Canary Islands. The couple arrive at Las Palmas and capture panoramic views of the people, and landscape around their hotel.
![A still from [Holiday in Catalonia and beach scenes] (1950s)](/wp-content/uploads/films/6218/image_a_thumb.jpg "[Holiday in Catalonia and beach scenes] (1950s)")
[Holiday in Catalonia and beach scenes]
| Date | [ca. 1950s] | ID | 6218 |
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A group of holidaymakers visit Spain and film a bull run. At a beach, a group of men go skinny dipping and play on the beach in the nude. A woman leaves hospital with her new born baby. Returning to Barcelona and Catalonia there are extended scenes of a bull fight and scenes filmed on holiday around Spain.
[Holiday Scenes]
| Date | [1952?] | ID | 5433 |
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This holiday film documents a family holiday to a rural lakeside location in Spain (Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife ?), followed by scenes of the family relaxing next to a pool and aboard a ship or ferry playing deck Quoits and posing for the camera during a rough sea journey.
![[Father Neptune; French Riviera; Spain; Majorca] (1954)](/wp-content/uploads/films/9254/image_a_thumb.jpg "[Father Neptune; French Riviera; Spain; Majorca] (1954)")
[Father Neptune; French Riviera; Spain; Majorca]
| Date | 1954 | ID | 9254 |
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A compilation showing Brighton Swimming Club members on the beach, dressed in fancy dress and in drag, pretending to 'shave' other swimmers whilst pinning them down and then dunking them in the sea. The group go on a road trip visiting Monaco and Spain (Barcelona?) where they take in the sights; swim and water ski; see traditional dancers and watch a bullfight. At the airport, they film two cars being loaded onto a Bristol Freighter plane through its nose doors.
[Holiday to Spain and France]
| Date | 1956 | ID | 7123 |
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This colour family holiday film shows highlights of a trip to the Hotel Agiua-Blava and Sevile in Spain, with shots of several beaches and a trip to a bullring to watch a bullfight. The second part of the film shows the family on a trip to Paris visiting several landmarks including the Eiffel Tower, to capture views of the city.
[Baby; Toddlers; Sweden]
| Date | 1956 - 1959 | ID | 8623 |
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This edited colour film shows a child at different ages up to 3 or 4 years old, playing with siblings and going on holiday to Rägo, Sweden. Intertitles illustrate milestones in the child's development.
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