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[CHESTER CARNIVAL]
Date: c1935 Film Number: 9785
 
Crowds of people fill the main streets of Chester for the carnival parade, watching a procession of floats and other vehicles, a brass band and a kazoo band, people in fancy dress, including Mahatma Gandhi and Adolf Hitler, a stilt walker and a horde of prancing cheerleaders with pom-poms. After the procession, the crowds mill around and the film moves to the carnival field and the cheerleaders performing.
 
 
 
[HALLOWE'EN, BIRTHDAY PARTY AND DOMESTIC SCENES]
Date: c1935 Film Number: 9786
 
Compilation reel of family footage, including baby’s bathtime, children devouring cake at a birthday party and having fun apple bobbing at Hallowe’en.
 
 
 
[TRAFFIC AT BUSY JUNCTION]
Date: c1935 Film Number: 9788
 
A traffic policeman directs an assortment of traffic turning at a junction, as pedestrians make their way past the cars, buses, bicycles and motorcycles.
 
 
 
[BABY WENDY ON A CHAIR]
Date: c1935 Film Number: 10807
 
In this film we see close up shots of baby Wendy sitting in a chair.
 
 
 
[WENDY AND FAMILY]
Date: c1935 Film Number: 10808
 
The film opens with scenes of Wendy sat in a pram with a soft toy in the garden. An elderly man plays with her by throwing her blanket over her which makes her laugh. We then see Wendy with her mother indoors.
 
 
 
[BABY WENDY AND HER MOTHER]
Date: c1935 Film Number: 10811
 
A nurse holds baby Wendy and then we see her in bed with her mother, and then lying on a smaller bed at the bedside.
 
 
 
[BABY WENDY AND HER PARENTS]
Date: c1935 Film Number: 10812
 
Wendy's mother sits in a deckchair in a garden holding Wendy. She then hands the baby over to a nurse who takes her away. Wendy's mother then smiles for the camera and talks to the cameraman.
 
 
 
[WENDY IN THE WINDOW]
Date: c1935 Film Number: 10813
 
Wendy's mother stands in a bay window holding baby Wendy, then we see shots of baby Wendy sitting propped up in the window.
 
 
 
[BABY WENDY AND OTHER CHILDREN]
Date: c1935 Film Number: 10821
 
Baby Wendy is seen with other children. An older boy has a stuffed toy, while a younger one crawls around while adults distract him by giving him a set of keys to play with. We see a brief shot of Wendy and another girl in the garden.
 
 
 
[BABY WENDY WEARS A SUNBONNET IN THE GARDEN]
Date: c1935 Film Number: 10822
 
Baby Wendy in the garden wearing a sunbonnet. She sits on the lawn and crawls around.
 
 
 
[MAY QUEEN AND COUNTRY DANCING]
Date: c1935 Film Number: 10835
 
Scenes from an outdoor event. We see young people doing country dancing and a May Queen with her retinue.
 
 
 
[MAYPOLE AND COUNTRY DANCING]
Date: c1935 Film Number: 10837
 
Scenes from an outdoor event. We see girls dancing around a maypole and then young people country dancing.
 
 
 
[NORWEGIAN SCENES]
Date: mid 1930s Film Number: 8732
 
Scenes from a trip to Norway - landscapes and fjords.
 
 
 
A DAY WITH JOHN JEREMY. 17 MONTHS OLD
Date: c1935 Film Number: 8423
 
Compilation reel of family home and leisure footage, in which young John Jeremy Kaye features prominently, often in the garden with his parents and other family members. There are also scenes at the coast, where JJ gets to paddle in the sea; a game of tennis on a sunny day; picnics in the garden and further afield; sailing dinghies in the Lake District, and a group of women sitting on a boat pulled up on the beach.
 
 
 
[LOMAX TRIPS, VISITS AND HOLIDAYS]
Date: *1934-37 Film Number: 5436
 
Compilation reel featuring visits to Scotland, the Lake District, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Derbyshire and London. There are shots of local scenery and landmarks, parks and streetscenes in Scotland (including St Andrews, St Fillans, Aberdeen, Dundee and Dunfermline). After brief footage of Blackpool seafront, there is a trip to Canons Park in London, scenes at a Morecambe park, adults eating ice cream at Silverdale, exterior shots of the Newby Bridge Hotel and a glimpse of the bridge at Higher Hodder. Shots of a procession at Flookburgh Carnival, and a coach trip to Malham, precede colour footage of Matlock Bath, Darley Dale and Hoylake lido.
 
 
 
[KENYAN SCENES]
Date: 1934-37 Film Number: 10728
 
African men in canoes hunting a hippopotamus, pulling it out of a swamp and rolling it over followed by Weaverbirds and Cormorants in Victoria Nyanza. Women and children picking tea and men picking coffee beans in Jamji in Kenya. Street scenes with children playing in Djibouti followed by views of the harbour in Aden, Yemen followed by busy street scenes in Aden with camel pulled carts and many pedestrians.
 
 
 
[WENDY IN THE GARDEN IN THE SUMMER]
Date: c1935-6 Film Number: 10815
 
Young Wendy, dressed only in a sunbonnet, sits on the lawn, then stands up holding on to a table before falling over onto the grass. A building with large chimneys is seen in the background.
 
 
 
[CHILDREN AND PRAMS]
Date: c1935-6 Film Number: 10816
 
A nanny pushes a pram with two children in it and then we see shots of Wendy pushing her toy pram.
 
 
 
[MARE AND FOAL IN A FIELD; WENDY IN A SUNBONNET]
Date: c1935-6 Film Number: 10830
 
Scenes of a mare and foal in a field, they eat then run around. We then see Wendy in the garden wearing her sunbonnet.
 
 
 
HOLIDAY AT TENBY SOUTH WALES
Date: *1934 - 8 Film Number: 497
 
The Powell family on holiday in Wales - on the beach; a trip in a motor boat; visits to Caldy and the Isle of Dogs; Cockington Smithy and Cockington Court where there is a dog show and a children's fancy dress event; glimpses of the sights of London.
 
 
 
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