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Film & Video Catalogue: Item Detail

Film Number

1520

Title

HOLIDAYS AT HOME 1942 [WIGAN AREA]

Producer

Unknown

Date

1942

Gauge

9.5mm

Colour

b/w

Sound

silent

Running Time

8 mins 35 secs

Description

Local people engaged in various activities in the week of July 4th-11th, 1942. Includes canal boat trips and entertainments at 'Callenders Pleasure Field'. These involve stalls, Punch and Judy shows and trapeze artists. Continues with shots of, and from, a canal boat and footage of people going back to work. After 'the End' there is footage of a trick motor cyclist, a miniature railway and doves perched on a woman.

 

 



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