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[A ‘Capitol’ Newsreel by Clifford Spain I]
Date | 1919 - 1931 | ID | 1515 |
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This compilation contains films of local interest which were exhibited in a newsreel format at the Capitol Cinema in Walton-on-Thames by its manager Clifford Spain. The events captured on film are primarily community-driven ones, filmed to attract their participants to the subsequent cinema screenings.

The Motor Cycling Club London Lugano Run [Ahearn]
Date | August 1927 | ID | 10646 |
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This film shows Mr John Ahearn in his Invicta car [YE 7682] on the the Motor Cycling Club's London to Lugano car run in August 1927 filmed by Harry Weinstein.

The Motor Cycling Club London Lugano Run [H.C.Reigate]
Date | August 1927 | ID | 10647 |
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This two-part film shows the Motorcycling Club's London to Lugano car run in August 1927 filmed by H.G. Reigate in his Invicta car (YH 1305); accompanied by his travelling companion and navigator Mr M. Weinstein. The pair travel with a group of drivers in various cars on a journey through Europe.
[Seaside Views; North Foreland House; Camera Tricks; Ice Skating]
Date | [1928?] | ID | 5246 |
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A compilation filmed by Enid Briggs in the late 1920s, including seaside scenes, sequences shot in North Foreland House gardens using stop frame and reverse action camera techniques, and ice skaters in Switzerland.
Holiday to Switzerland and North Germany
Date | 1929 | ID | 733 |
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Rudd family scenes filmed by Mr. and Mrs. Rudd while on holiday in Switzerland in 1929, edited and compiled with intertitles. The holidayers learn to ski, watch a luge race and a ski jump, and film from from a river boat in Germany.
Morgins: Jan 10 - Feb 2 1930
Date | 10 January - 2 February 1930 | ID | 3089 |
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Home movie footage of a skiing holiday to Switzerland. The male and female holidaymakers are filmed learning to ski on the nursery slopes, attempting a slalom course, playing in an ice-hockey match, and competing in various outdoor ice-skating races. The film-maker was a Captain in the Royal Sussex Regiment.

[Trip to Switzerland; Visit to London Zoo]
Date | [ca. 1930s] | ID | 3525 |
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A trip to the mountains in Switzerland is followed by a day out in London, where the group of friends visit the zoo.
[Journey Through the Mountains]
Date | [ca. 1930s] | ID | 9315 |
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This film shows a couple travelling through the Swiss Alps towards Italy in an open top car. The couple visit a harbour and the Middle Bridge (Mittlere Brucke) in Basel over the Rhine. Shots of a mountain range near St Moritz, and a hotel surrounded by a snowy landscape are followed by a tour of Italy visiting Bologna and Florence.

[Family Compilation: African Scenes; Paris Visit; Winter Scenes; Travel Scenes]
Date | [1936-1939?] | ID | 3520 |
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Comprising nine reels of film, this footage begins with a trip by businessman Joseph Horowitz to Johannesburg, South Africa. Travel by ship follows, before scenes of Paris, a canal journey, and portraits of friends in a London street. More footage documents travel through the Alps, a Polish mountain town in winter and Indian street life, before shots of an imposing modern church in a Francophone town.
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[Holiday in Switzerland]
Date | [1938?] | ID | 2740 |
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A brief amateur film recording a holiday to Switzerland. The majority of the footage focuses on the outdoor markets in Bern - the cameraman pays particular attention to the women wearing traditional Swiss dresses.
[Holiday in Switzerland]
Date | 1938 | ID | 10027 |
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This colour film provides highlights of the Norman family on a skiing holiday in Wengen, Switzerland. With views of snow capped pistes, chalets and lodges, and other holiday makers undertaking winter sports including curling, ice skating, alpine skiing and tobogganing.

With the Bentley in France and Switzerland
Date | 1939 | ID | 1538 |
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A film by architect Joseph Emberton of a holiday with his wife Kathleen. They travel to the French Alps and the Lausanne region of Switzerland, in their Bentley car. The couple enjoy swimming and relaxing in the holiday resorts and take in the mountain scenery.

Winter Sports
Date | January 1939 | ID | 1546 |
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A film by Joseph Emberton of a skiing holiday with his wife in St. Moritz. They travel by train and watch ice skating, including the European Figure Skating champions Cecilia Colledge and Megan Taylor at the Chanterella ice rink. The Emberton's take skiing lessons and Joseph Emberton injures his leg and is taken to hospital.
[Milestone [?]; Children’s Village Trogen]
Date | [1947?] | ID | 5779 |
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A silent film documenting the founding of the Pestalozzi Children's Village at Trogen, Switzerland. The village is seen being constructed, children help to make furniture and a ceremony is held to mark its official opening. Children from abroad arrive at the village and take up residence in one of the houses, they are seen enjoying games and learning in the classroom. The film is intersected by titles, providing a narrative to the events.

Holidays in Switzerland
Date | August 1948 | ID | 1426 |
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On a drive to Switzerland, this film records visits to French towns before a tour of the ports and villages around Lausanne, Lake Geneva and the Rhône Valley. A visit to the Great St Bernard Pass in the Alps is followed by stays in Lucerne and Zurich.
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